Can extinction rates be estimated without fossils?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-30

  Paradis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Diversity; Estimation; Extinction; Maximum likelihood; Phylogeny; Simulation; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 2642553790     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.02.018     Document Type: Article

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