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0–1 Laws for Pattern Occurrences in Phylogenetic Trees and Networks

scientific article published on 19 June 2024

: A unifying framework for modelling evolutionary trees

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

A basic limitation on inferring phylogenies by pairwise sequence comparisons.

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

A class of phylogenetic networks reconstructable from ancestral profiles

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

A covariotide model explains apparent phylogenetic structure of oxygenic photosynthetic lineages.

scientific article published on September 1998

A discrete Fourier analysis for evolutionary trees

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A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes.

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A note on random catalytic branching processes.

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

A phase transition for a random cluster model on phylogenetic trees.

scientific article published in February 2004

A simple statistical test of taxonomic or functional homogeneity using replicated microbiome sequencing samples. ⬇️

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Acquisition of 1,000 eubacterial genes physiologically transformed a methanogen at the origin of Haloarchaea

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Age-dependent speciation can explain the shape of empirical phylogenies

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Algorithms for detecting and analysing autocatalytic sets

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

An Autocatalytic Network Model of Conceptual Change

An evolutionary process without variation and selection

scientific article published in July 2021

An improved bound on the Maximum Agreement Subtree problem.

scientific article published on November 2009

Autocatalytic Networks at the Basis of Life's Origin and Organization

scientific article published on 08 December 2018

Autocatalytic Sets Arising in a Combinatorial Model of Chemical Evolution

scientific article published on 26 October 2022

Autocatalytic networks in biology: structural theory and algorithms

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Autocatalytic networks in cognition and the origin of culture

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Autocatalytic sets and biological specificity.

scientific article published in January 2014

Autocatalytic sets and boundaries.

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Autocatalytic sets in E. coli metabolism

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Autocatalytic sets in a partitioned biochemical network.

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Axiomatic opportunities and obstacles for inferring a species tree from gene trees.

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Bayesian Phylogenetic Estimation of Clade Ages Supports Trans-Atlantic Dispersal of Cichlid Fishes

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Better methods for solving parsimony and compatibility.

scientific article published in January 1998

Branch lengths on birth-death trees and the expected loss of phylogenetic diversity.

scientific article published on 24 August 2011

Can We "Future-Proof" Consensus Trees?†.

scientific article published on 7 February 2017

Can we avoid "SIN" in the house of "no common mechanism"?

scientific article published on 17 November 2010

Chasing the tail: The emergence of autocatalytic networks.

scientific article published on 24 December 2016

Circumstances in which parsimony but not compatibility will be provably misleading

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Clades, clans, and reciprocal monophyly under neutral evolutionary models.

scientific article published on 21 March 2011

Closure operations in phylogenetics.

scientific article published on 18 November 2006

Combinatorial properties of phylogenetic diversity indices

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

Comment on "Tibor Gánti and Robert Rosen" by Athel Cornish-Bowden.

scientific article published on 27 November 2015

Comparing strategies to preserve evolutionary diversity.

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Complexity results for autocatalytic network models

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Computing the distribution of a tree metric.

scientific article published in July 2009

Conditions for evolvability of autocatalytic sets: a formal example and analysis.

scientific article published in April 2014

Conditions under which distributions of edge length ratios on phylogenetic trees can be used to order evolutionary events

Confidence in evolutionary trees from biological sequence data.

scientific article published on July 1993

Consistency of Bayesian inference of resolved phylogenetic trees.

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

Defining phylogenetic networks using ancestral profiles

scientific article published in February 2021

Detecting autocatalytic, self-sustaining sets in chemical reaction systems.

scientific article published in April 2004

Distances that perfectly mislead

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Distribution of branch lengths and phylogenetic diversity under homogeneous speciation models

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Distribution of phylogenetic diversity under random extinction.

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Distributions on bicoloured evolutionary trees

1989 doctoral thesis by Michael Anthony Steel at Massey University

Do tree split probabilities determine the branch lengths?

scientific article published on 3 April 2015

Does random tree puzzle produce Yule-Harding trees in the many-taxon limit?

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Dynamics of a birth-death process based on combinatorial innovation

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Estimating phylogenetic trees from pairwise likelihoods and posterior probabilities of substitution counts.

scientific article published on 17 April 2011

Evolutionary isolation and phylogenetic diversity loss under random extinction events.

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Filtered Z-closure supernetworks for extracting and visualizing recurrent signal from incongruent gene trees.

scientific article published in December 2008

Folding and unfolding phylogenetic trees and networks

scientific article published on 23 April 2016

Formal Links between Feature Diversity and Phylogenetic Diversity

From Uncertainty to Insight: An Autocatalytic Framework

General time-reversible distances with unequal rates across sites: mixing gamma and inverse Gaussian distributions with invariant sites

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Hide and seek: placing and finding an optimal tree for thousands of homoplasy-rich sequences.

scientific article published on 9 August 2013

How molecules evolve in eubacteria

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

How probable is common ancestry according to different evolutionary processes?

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Hybrids in real time.

scientific article published in February 2006

Impacts of Terraces on Phylogenetic Inference

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Interior Operators and Their Relationship to Autocatalytic Networks

scientific article published on 27 October 2023

Labellable Phylogenetic Networks

scientific article published on 25 April 2023

Likelihood-based tree reconstruction on a concatenation of aligned sequence data sets can be statistically inconsistent.

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Loss of information in genetic distances

scientific article published in November 1988

Majority rule has transition ratio 4 on Yule trees under a 2-state symmetric model

scientific article published on 07 August 2014

Minimal autocatalytic networks.

scientific article published on 3 May 2013

Minimum triplet covers of binary phylogenetic X-trees

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Mixed-up trees: the structure of phylogenetic mixtures.

scientific article published on 3 January 2008

Modelling aspects of consciousness: a topological perspective

Modelling the unpredictability of future biodiversity in ecological networks.

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Molecular Diversity Required for the Formation of Autocatalytic Sets

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

More taxa are not necessarily better for the reconstruction of ancestral character states

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Neighbor-joining revealed.

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Networks: expanding evolutionary thinking ⬇️

scientific article published on June 11, 2013

On the information content of discrete phylogenetic characters

scientific article published on 16 December 2017

Origins of life: Common ancestry put to the test

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Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage

scientific article published on 15 December 2023

Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage

Phylogenetic Flexibility via Hall-Type Inequalities and Submodularity

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Phylogenetic diversity and the greedy algorithm.

scientific article published in August 2005

Phylogenetic information complexity: is testing a tree easier than finding it?

scientific article published on 20 January 2009

Phylogenetic mixtures and linear invariants for equal input models

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Phylogenetic mixtures on a single tree can mimic a tree of another topology.

scientific article published in October 2007

Phylogenetic network classes through the lens of expanding covers

scientific article published on 8 April 2024

Phylogenomics with incomplete taxon coverage: the limits to inference

scientific article (publication date: 25 May 2010)

Predicting long pendant edges in model phylogenies, with applications to biodiversity and tree inference

Predicting template-based catalysis rates in a simple catalytic reaction model.

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Predicting the ancestral character changes in a tree is typically easier than predicting the root state

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Predicting the loss of phylogenetic diversity under non-stationary diversification models.

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Progress with methods for constructing evolutionary trees.

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Quantifying the accuracy of ancestral state prediction in a phylogenetic tree under maximum parsimony

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

Quantifying the extent of lateral gene transfer required to Avert a 'genome of Eden'.

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Reconstructing pedigrees: a stochastic perspective.

scientific article published on 14 December 2007

Reconstructing trees when sequence sites evolve at variable rates

scientific article published on January 1994

Recovering evolutionary trees under a more realistic model of sequence evolution

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Reflections on the extinction-explosion dichotomy.

scientific article published on 12 March 2015

Root location in random trees: a polarity property of all sampling consistent phylogenetic models except one.

scientific article published on 5 July 2012

Self-generating autocatalytic networks: structural results, algorithms and their relevance to early biochemistry

scientific article published in May 2024

Self-generating autocatalytic networks: structural results, algorithms, and their relevance to evolutionary processes

Sequence length bounds for resolving a deep phylogenetic divergence.

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Should phylogenetic models be trying to "fit an elephant"?

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Shrinkage effect in ancestral maximum likelihood.

scientific article published in January 2009

Species notions that combine phylogenetic trees and phenotypic partitions

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Species, clusters and the 'Tree of life': a graph-theoretic perspective.

scientific article published on 2 June 2010

Stochastic properties of generalised Yule models, with biodiversity applications.

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Supertree algorithms for ancestral divergence dates and nested taxa.

scientific article published on 8 April 2004

Swapping Birth and Death: Symmetries and Transformations in Phylodynamic Models

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Testing the hypothesis of common ancestry.

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The 'Butterfly effect' in Cayley graphs with applications to genomics.

scientific article published on 4 December 2011

The Bayesian "star paradox" persists for long finite sequences.

scientific article published on 13 February 2007

The existence and abundance of ghost ancestors in biparental populations

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

The expected loss of feature diversity (versus phylogenetic diversity) following rapid extinction at the present

scientific article published in September 2023

The expected loss of feature diversity (versus phylogenetic diversity) following rapid extinction at the present

The impact and interplay of long and short branches on phylogenetic information content.

scientific article published on 7 September 2012

The most parsimonious tree for random data.

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The optimal rate for resolving a near-polytomy in a phylogeny

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

The probability of a unique gene occurrence at the tips of a phylogenetic tree in the absence of horizontal gene transfer (the last-one-out)

The standard lateral gene transfer model is statistically consistent for pectinate four-taxon trees ⬇️

scientific article published on July 13, 2013

The structure of autocatalytic networks, with application to early biochemistry

The structure of autocatalytic sets: evolvability, enablement, and emergence.

scientific article published on 28 September 2012

Tree-based networks: characterisations, metrics, and support trees

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

Tree-like reticulation networks--when do tree-like distances also support reticulate evolution?

scientific article published on 11 November 2014

Unicyclic networks: compatibility and enumeration.

scientific article published in January 2006

Which Phylogenetic Networks are Merely Trees with Additional Arcs?

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

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