Trees of Unusual Size: Biased Inference of Early Bursts from Large Molecular Phylogenies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Pennell, Matthew W ^a,b   Sarver, Brice A J ^a,b   Harmon, Luke J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CLADISTICS; DEATH; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SAMPLING ERROR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866050897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043348     Document Type: Article

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