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), the maximum average likelihood tree(s) is precisely the maximum parsimony tree(s). This result, by Tuffley and Steel (1997a), generalizes an earlier special case by The argument used to establish Theorem 2 also shows that, under a Poisson model, if we are given just a tree and a single character (and

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First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Jennifer E. Michaels. I am most appreciative of your guidance over the last four years, from the basics of elastic waves to both short- and long-term career advice. I have grown a tremendous amount, both profes-sionally and personally, and am deeply grateful for your mentorship, patience, and support. I would also like to thank my Ph.D. committee for their valuable insight and sugges-

topologies employing two models and study the connectivity of the sub-graphs formed by including unidirectional links of different reverse-route lengths. We observe from this analysis that the connectivity has a heavy-tail distribution and that using only bidirectional links could cause partitions

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