Evaluating Phylogenetic Tree Shape: Two
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ANDY PURVIS; ARIS KATZOURAKIS; PAUL-MICHAEL AGAPOW
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Measurement of the degree of asymmetry in phylogenetic trees is important because a tree's shape re#ects the process by which it has grown. For example, highly asymmetric trees are evidence that species have had di!erent potential for diversi"cation. Of the tree shape measures in the literature, tha