Diversity, disparity, and evolutionary rate estimation for unresolved yule trees

Systematic Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 439-455

  Crawford, Forrest W ^a,b   Suchard, Marc A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; comparative method; Markov reward process; phylogenetic diversity; pure birth process; quantitative trait evolution; trait disparity; Yule process

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORA; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORA; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876243041     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt010     Document Type: Article

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