Tree Models for Macroevolution and Phylogenetic Analysis
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Tree models for macroevolution and phylogenetic analysis.
It has long been recognized that phylogenetic trees are more unbalanced than those generated by a Yule process. Recently, the degree of this imbalance has been quantified using the large set of phylogenetic trees available in the TreeBASE data set. In this article, a more precise analysis of imbalance is undertaken. Trees simulated under a range of models are compared with trees from TreeBASE a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Systematic Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1076-836X,1063-5157
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr086