Pulled Diversification Rates, Lineages-Through-Time Plots, and Modern Macroevolutionary Modeling.

ABSTRACT: Estimating time-dependent rates of speciation and extinction from dated phylogenetic trees of extant species (timetrees), and determining how and why they vary, is key to understanding how ecological and evolutionary processes shape biodiversity. Due to an increasing availability of phylogenetic trees, a growing number of process-based methods relying on the birth-death model have been developed in the last decade to address a variety of questions in macroevolution. However, this methodological progress has regularly been criticized such that one may wonder how reliable the estimations of speciation and extinction rates are. In particular, using lineages-through-time (LTT) plots, a recent study has shown that there are an infinite number of equally likely diversification scenarios that can

SUBMITTER: Helmstetter AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9016617 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature