Identify Rogue Taxa in Sets of Phylogenetic Trees
Description
Rogue ("wildcard") taxa are leaves with uncertain phylogenetic
position.
Their position may vary from tree to tree under inference methods that yield a
tree set (e.g. bootstrapping, Bayesian tree searches, maximum parsimony).
The presence of rogue taxa in a tree set can potentially remove all
information from a consensus tree. The information content of a consensus
tree - a function of its resolution and branch support values - can often be
increased by removing rogue taxa.
'Rogue' provides an explicitly information-theoretic approach to rogue
detection (Smith 2022) ,
and an interface to 'RogueNaRok' (Aberer et al. 2013)
.