“…The algorithmic problem of reconstructing a history of recombination events (with mutations), or determining the minimum number of recombination nodes needed in a phylogenetic network (for both rooted and unrooted problems), has been studied in a number of papers (Gusfield et al, 2007;Hein, 1990Hein, , 1993Hein, 2003, 2004;Wang et al, 2001;Myers and Griffiths, 2003;Hudson and Kaplan, 1985;Kececioglu and Gusfield, 1998;Gusfield, 2005a;Gusfield et al, 2004b,a;Nakhleh et al, 2003Nakhleh et al, , 2004Moret et al, 2004;Bansal, 2004, 2006a;Lyngso et al, 2005;Song et al, 2006;Myers, 2003).…”