“…Adding a set of labels L to an edge side (u, v) of an r -generator involves subdividing (u, v) to a path of |L| internal nodes and, for each such internal node w, adding a new leaf w , an edge (w, w ), and labeling w with some taxon from L (such that L bijectively labels the new leaves). On the other hand, adding a label l to a node side v consists of adding a new leaf y, an edge (v, y) and labeling y with l. In [32] it was shown that if G is an r -generator, then G has at most 4r − 1 edge sides and at most r node sides. We will start by showing that the (CPS) reduction rule leaves the hybridization number unchanged:…”