How well can the exponential-growth coalescent approximate constant-rate birth–death population dynamics?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1806, 2015, Pages

  Stadler, Tanja ^a,b   Vaughan, Timothy G ^c,d,e   Gavryushkin, Alex ^c   Guindon, Stephane ^c,f   Kühnert, Denise ^a,b   Leventhal, Gabriel E ^a   Drummond, Alexei J ^c,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution   (New Zealand)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^f LIRMM   (France)

Author keywords

Birth death model; Epidemiology; Phylodynamics; Phylogenetics; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRTH RATE; MARKOV CHAIN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

BIRTH RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84928902417     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0420     Document Type: Article

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