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When are Quarnets Sufficient to Reconstruct Semi-directed Phylogenetic Networks?

Katharina T Huber¹, Leo van Iersel², Mark Jones³

¹School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

|August 28, 2025

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Semi-directed phylogenetic networks are encoded by smaller networks called quarnets for level-2 but not level-3. The blob tree structure of these networks is always encoded by their quarnets, aiding phylogenetic reconstruction software.

Keywords:

Blob tree Encoding Level-2 network Quarnet Semi-directed phylogenetic network

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Area of Science:

Evolutionary biology
Graph theory
Computational phylogenetics

Background:

Phylogenetic networks model evolutionary relationships, generalizing trees by allowing lineage recombination.
Semi-directed phylogenetic networks incorporate directed edges for lineage merging, addressing challenges in rooting networks with real data.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether semi-directed phylogenetic networks are uniquely determined by their induced sub-networks on 4-leaf sets (quarnets).
To determine the conditions under which quarnets encode semi-directed phylogenetic networks of different complexity levels.
To assess the quarnet-encoding property for the blob tree structure of semi-directed networks.

Main Methods:

Theoretical analysis of graph structures representing phylogenetic relationships.
Proof-based investigation of network encoding properties based on induced quarnets.
Examination of semi-directed binary phylogenetic networks of level-2 and level-3.

Main Results:

Semi-directed binary level-2 phylogenetic networks are proven to be encoded by their quarnets.
This encoding property does not hold for semi-directed binary level-3 phylogenetic networks.
The blob tree, representing the coarse-grained structure of a semi-directed binary network, is always encoded by its quarnets.

Conclusions:

Quarnet-based encoding is established for specific classes of semi-directed phylogenetic networks, particularly level-2 networks and their blob trees.
These findings are crucial for the statistical consistency of algorithms reconstructing phylogenetic networks from empirical data.
The results support the development of tools like SQUIRREL for phylogenetic network inference.