New analytic results for speciation times in neutral models

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1082-1097

  Gernhard, Tanja ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical branching process; Phylogenetics; Reconstructed process; Yule model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICS; TIME;

GENETIC SPECIATION; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43349107794     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-007-9291-0     Document Type: Article

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