Properties of phylogenetic trees generated by yule-type speciation models

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 91-112

  Steel, Mike ^a   McKenzie, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Phylogeny; Speciation; Trees; Yule model

Indexed keywords

MODELING; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0035084255     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(00)00061-4     Document Type: Article

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