Distribution of branch lengths and phylogenetic diversity under homogeneous speciation models

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 297, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-40

  Stadler, Tanja ^a   Steel, Mike ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Birth death process; Branch length; Phylogenetic tree; Yule model

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TREE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEATH PROCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EXTANT SPECIES; PENDANT EDGE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT AGE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY DENSITY; RECONSTRUCTED TREE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

ANIMALS; BIRTH RATE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84155173537     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.11.019     Document Type: Article

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