2014
On the distribution of interspecies correlation for Markov models of character evolution on Yule trees
Mulder WH, Crawford FW. On the distribution of interspecies correlation for Markov models of character evolution on Yule trees. Journal Of Theoretical Biology 2014, 364: 275-283. PMID: 25240905, PMCID: PMC4256168, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.09.016.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenetic treeYule treeProbability distributionPhylogenetic information contentContinuous-time modelPhylogenetic inference methodsOrnstein-Uhlenbeck modelCharacter evolutionPhylogenetic studiesNumber of mutationsTrait patternsRelated organismsStochastic modelNew speciesSimple continuous-time modelBrownian motionYule processEvolutionary processesPhenotypic changesMutation modelInference methodsSite patternsOptimal designSpeciationMutations
2013
Diversity, Disparity, and Evolutionary Rate Estimation for Unresolved Yule Trees
Crawford FW, Suchard MA. Diversity, Disparity, and Evolutionary Rate Estimation for Unresolved Yule Trees. Systematic Biology 2013, 62: 439-455. PMID: 23417679, PMCID: PMC3622899, DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenetic treePhylogenetic diversityTrait disparityEvolutionary relationshipsYule treeMammalian order CarnivoraPhenotypic trait valuesComparative evolutionary studiesEvolutionary rate estimationSet of taxaOrganism of interestTrait evolutionPhenotypic evolutionEvolutionary biologistsInferred phylogenyEvolutionary studiesUnresolved cladeTrait valuesMacroevolutionary studiesTrait dataRelated organismsOrder CarnivoraCladeBrownian motionBranch lengths