Quantifying Age-dependent Extinction from Species Phylogenies.
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SUBMITTER: Alexander HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4678252 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
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Quantifying Age-dependent Extinction from Species Phylogenies.
Alexander Helen K HK Lambert Amaury A Stadler Tanja T
Systematic biology 20150924 1
Several ecological factors that could play into species extinction are expected to correlate with species age, i.e., time elapsed since the species arose by speciation. To date, however, statistical tools to incorporate species age into likelihood-based phylogenetic inference have been lacking. We present here a computational framework to quantify age-dependent extinction through maximum likelihood parameter estimation based on phylogenetic trees, assuming species lifetimes are gamma distributed ...[more]
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