Inferring speciation and extinction rates under different sampling schemes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2577-2589

  Höhna, Sebastian ^a   Stadler, Tanja ^b   Ronquist, Fredrik ^c   Britton, Tom ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

birth and death process; extinction; inference; phylogenetics; sampling; speciation; species tree

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH RATE; FAUNA; FLORA; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXON;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 80052161375     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr095     Document Type: Article

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