THE RECONSTRUCTED EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS

Authors
NEE S MAY RM HARVEY PH
Citation
S. Nee et al., THE RECONSTRUCTED EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS, Philosophical transactions-Royal Society of London. Biological sciences, 344(1309), 1994, pp. 305-311
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
Philosophical transactions-Royal Society of London. Biological sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
09628436
Volume
344
Issue
1309
Year of publication
1994
Pages
305 - 311
Database
ISI
SICI code
0962-8436(1994)344:1309<305:TREP>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Phylogenies reconstructed from contemporary taxa do not contain inform ation about lineages that have gone extinct. We derive probability mod els for such phylogenies, allowing real data to be compared with speci fied null models of evolution, and lineage birth and death rates to be estimated.