Optimizing phylogenetic diversity under constraints.

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Phylogenetic diversity (PD) is a measure of the extent to which different subsets of taxa span an evolutionary tree, and provides a quantitative tool for studying biodiversity conservation. Recently, it was shown that the problem of finding subsets of taxa of given size to maximize PD can be efficiently solved by a greedy algorithm. In this paper, we extend this earlier work, beginning with a more explicit...

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