Problem Definition

• Given:

  • Host phylogeny H;
  • Associate phylogeny P;
  • Known associations between them _.

• What were the past associations of taxa?

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Define Problem: given “host” & “parasite” trees and their known (observed) associations, we want to find the most likely (or even most parsimonious) set of associations which best explains the observed data.