Neutral phylogenetic models and their role in tree-based biodiversity
measures
Neutral phylogenetic models and their role in tree-based biodiversity
measures
A wide variety of stochastic models of cladogenesis (based on speciation and extinction) lead to an identical distribution on phylogenetic tree shapes once the edge lengths are ignored. By contrast, the distribution of the tree's edge lengths is generally quite sensitive to the underlying model. In this paper, we review …