Age-Dependent Speciation Can Explain the Shape of Empirical Phylogenies
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Age-Dependent Speciation Can Explain the Shape of Empirical Phylogenies
Tens of thousands of phylogenetic trees, describing the evolutionary relationships between hundreds of thousands of taxa, are readily obtainable from various databases. From such trees, inferences can be made about the underlying macroevolutionary processes, yet remarkably these processes are still poorly understood. Simple and widely used evolutionary null models are problematic: Empirical tre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Systematic Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1076-836X,1063-5157
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv001