Clades, clans, and reciprocal monophyly under neutral evolutionary models

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 220-227

  Zhu, Sha ^a   Degnan, James H ^a   Steel, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Clade; Clan; Coalescent model; Yule tree

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; RECIPROCITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79955484382     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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