2 papers
q-bio.PE2009
Expected length of pendant and interior edges of a Yule tree
Mike Steel, Arne Mooers
The Yule (pure-birth) model is the simplest null model of speciation; each lineage gives rise to a new lineage independently with the same rate . We investigate the expected len…
q-bio.PE2007
Hedging our bets: the expected contribution of species to future phylogenetic diversity
Mike Steel, Aki Mimoto, Arne O. Mooers
If predictions for species extinctions hold, then the `tree of life' today may be quite different to that in (say) 100 years. We describe a technique to quantify how much each spec…