Estimating diversification rates from phylogenetic information

RE Ricklefs - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2007 - cell.com
Patterns of species richness reflect the balance between speciation and extinction over the
evolutionary history of life. These processes are influenced by the size and geographical …

Understanding angiosperm diversification using small and large phylogenetic trees

SA Smith, JM Beaulieu, A Stamatakis… - American journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
How will the emerging possibility of inferring ultra‐large phylogenies influence our ability to
identify shifts in diversification rate? For several large angiosperm clades (Angiospermae …

Delimiting species using single-locus data and the Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent approach: a revised method and evaluation on simulated data sets

T Fujisawa, TG Barraclough - Systematic biology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
DNA barcoding-type studies assemble single-locus data from large samples of individuals
and species, and have provided new kinds of data for evolutionary surveys of diversity. An …

[图书][B] Historical biogeography of Neotropical freshwater fishes

JS Albert, R Reis - 2011 - books.google.com
The fish faunas of continental South and Central America constitute one of the greatest
concentrations of aquatic diversity on Earth, consisting of about 10 percent of all living …

[图书][B] Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R

E Paradis - 2012 - Springer
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Taxon sampling and the accuracy of phylogenetic analyses

TA Heath, SM Hedtke, DM Hillis - Journal of systematics and evolution, 2008 - jse.ac.cn
Appropriate and extensive taxon sampling is one of the most important determinants of
accurate phylogenetic estimation. In addition, accuracy of inferences about evolutionary …

Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history

MW Cadotte, T Jonathan Davies, J Regetz… - Ecology …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic information is increasingly being used to understand the assembly of
biological communities and ecological processes. However, commonly used metrics of …

Amazonian amphibian diversity is primarily derived from late Miocene Andean lineages

JC Santos, LA Coloma, K Summers, JP Caldwell… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
The Neotropics contains half of remaining rainforests and Earth's largest reservoir of
amphibian biodiversity. However, determinants of Neotropical biodiversity (ie, vicariance …

Gene tree distributions under the coalescent process

JH Degnan, LA Salter - Evolution, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Under the coalescent model for population divergence, lineage sorting can cause
considerable variability in gene trees generated from any given species tree. In this paper …

Which random processes describe the tree of life? A large-scale study of phylogenetic tree imbalance

MGB Blum, O François - Systematic Biology, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The explosion of phylogenetic studies not only provides a clear snapshot of biodiversity, but
also makes it possible to infer how the diversity has arisen (see, for example, Purvis and …