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Birth-Death Models in Macroevolution

Nee, Sean·2006·Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
DOI 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110035
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Birth-death models, and their subsets—the pure birth and pure death models—have a long history of use for informing thinking about macroevolutionary patterns. Here we illustrate with examples the wide range of questions they have been used to address, including estimating and comparing rates of diversification of clades, investigating the “shapes” of clades, and some rather surprising uses such as estimating speciation rates from data that are not resolved below the level of the genus. The raw data for inference can be the fossil record or the molecular phylogeny of a clade, and we explore the similarites and differences in the behavior of the birth-death models when applied to these different forms of data.

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  • Phylogenetic methods can be used to also address other questions, such as how features of the genome influence diversification.

    “Of note, phylogenetic methods can be used to also address other questions, such as how features of the genome influence diversification41–43.”

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Authors
Nee, S.
Affiliations
University of Edinburgh (GB)
Corresponding author
Nee, Sean
ORCID
Nee, Sean
Venue
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2006-12-01
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
1-17
ISSN
  • 1543-592X (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2069
DOI
10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110035
OpenAlex
W2149462580
Cited by
342
References
4
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 25 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 23
FWCI
1.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Keywords
birth-death model, macroevolution, diversification rates, fossil record, molecular phylogeny

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