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Maximum Likelihood Supertrees
Mike Steel, Allen Rodrigo
We analyse a maximum-likelihood approach for combining phylogenetic trees into a larger `supertree'. This is based on a simple exponential model of phylogenetic error, which ensure…
Distribution of phylogenetic diversity under random extinction
Beata Faller, Fabio Pardi, Mike Steel
Phylogenetic diversity is a measure for describing how much of an evolutionary tree is spanned by a subset of species. If one applies this to the (unknown) subset of current specie…
Reconstructing pedigrees: a stochastic perspective
Bhalchandra D. Thatte, Mike Steel
A pedigree is a directed graph that describes how individuals are related through ancestry in a sexually-reproducing population. In this paper we explore the question of whether on…
Mixed-up trees: the structure of phylogenetic mixtures
Frederick A. Matsen, Elchanan Mossel, Mike Steel
In this paper we apply new geometric and combinatorial methods to the study of phylogenetic mixtures. The focus of the geometric approach is to describe the geometry of phylogeneti…
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…
Phylogenetic mixtures on a single tree can mimic a tree of another topology
Frederick A. Matsen, Mike Steel
Phylogenetic mixtures model the inhomogeneous molecular evolution commonly observed in data. The performance of phylogenetic reconstruction methods where the underlying data is gen…