SYMMETREE: whole-tree analysis of differential diversification rates

Abstract

SymmeTREE implements several tests of differential diversification rates that exploit information on the topological distribution of species diversity throughout entire trees to address two general questions: (1) Has a given tree experienced significant variation in diversification rates among its branches? and (2) If so, along which branches have significant shifts in diversification rate occurred? These explicitly model-based methods are robust to uncertainty in estimates of branch length/duration and can accommodate incompletely resolved trees and other forms of phylogenetic uncertainty.

Availability: http://www.phylodiversity.net/bmoore/software.html

Contact: brian.moore@yale.edu.