median network A specialist type of maximum-parsimony tree method for phylogenetic reconstruction in which all the most parsimonious trees are represented in a reticulate grid in a three-dimensional perspective. Median networks are applied to data where the degree of homoplasy is very high and the number of informative sites very low (e.g. with data derived from populations).

median network A specialist type of maximum-parsimony tree method for phylogenetic reconstruction in which all the most parsimonious trees are represented in a reticulate grid in a three-dimensional perspective. Median networks are applied to data where the degree of homoplasy is very high and the number of informative sites very low (e.g. with data derived from populations).