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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025

Neutral phylogenetic models and their role in tree-based biodiversity measures.

Mike Steel

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. SURROGATE SELECTION OVERSAMPLES EXPANDED T CELL CLONOTYPES.The annals of applied statistics · 2025
    Article
  2. "A mathematical theory of evolution": phylogenetic models dating back 100 years.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Mike SteelBiomathematics Research Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0001-7015-4644

Funding

Marsden Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 the impact of different model choices on tree shape and edge length distribution, and its impact for studying the properties of phylogenetic diversity (PD) as a measure of biodiversity, and the loss of PD as species become extinct at the present. We also compare PD with a stochastic model of feature diversity, and investigate some mathematical links and inequalities between these two measures plus their predictions concerning the loss of biodiversity under extinction at the present.This article is part of the theme issue "'A mathematical theory of evolution": phylogenetic models dating back 100 years'.

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BiodiversityModels, BiologicalModels, GeneticPhylogenyBiological EvolutionExtinction, BiologicalGenetic SpeciationStochastic Processesbirth–death processfeature diversityphylogenetic diversityphylogenetic tree

Identifiers

PMID39976409
PMCPMC11867159

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