It has recently been shown that the NP-hard problem of calculating the minimum number of hybridization events that is needed to explain a set of rooted binary phylogenetic trees by means of a hybridization network is fixed-parameter tractable if an instance of the problem consists of precisely two such trees. In this paper, we show that this problem remains fixed-parameter tractable for an arbitrarily large set of rooted binary phylogenetic trees. In particular, we present a quadratic kernel.
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van Iersel, L., & Linz, S. (2012). A quadratic kernel for computing the hybridization number of multiple trees. arXiv.org e-Print archive. Cornell University Library .