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Diversification
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Please contact me
if you know of relevant programs not listed below.
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| End-Epi is
a now defunct program written by Andrew
Rambaut, Paul
Harvey, and Sean
Nee. Although much of the functionality has been inherited
by its successor, Genie, End-Epi remains the only program that
implements the 'relative cladogenesis
statistic', which tests for significant among-lineage
diversification rate variation. For this reason, I've decided
to host the program on this site, which you can download
by clicking here.
End-Epi has been compiled exclusively for Mac
OS 7-9. |
| GammaStatistic is
a GUI program written by Eva Maria Griebeler that implements the gamma statistic proposed by Pybus and Harvey (2000). This method tests for significant decreases in
diversification rate through time by evaluating whether the internal nodes in the study a phylogeny are closer to the root than expected under a pure-birth (Yule) stochastic branching process.
Note that this statistic cannot detect significant increases in dversification rate through time. GammaStatistic has been compiled exclusively for the Windows OS. |
| Genie is
a C program written by Oliver
Pybus and Andrew
Rambaut. Although principally intended
as a tool for inferring aspects of demographic history from
population-level trees, Genie also possesses some of the species-level
functions from its predecessor, End-Epi, including the ability
to render lineage-through-time plots. As noted previously,
however, the relative cladogenesis statistic is not implemented
in this program. Additionally, 'epidemic' and 'endemic'
transformations have been superceded by skyline plots.
Genie has been
compiled for Mac OS X, Linus, Unix, and Windows operating
systems. |
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