Branch lengths on birth-death trees and the expected loss of phylogenetic diversity

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-203

  Mooers, Arne ^a   Gascuel, Olivier ^b   Stadler, Tanja ^c   Li, Heyang ^d   Steel, Mike ^d  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LIRMM   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Extinction; phylogenetic diversity; phylogenetic tree; Yule process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

CLASSIFICATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84863154596     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr090     Document Type: Article

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