title: 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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://www.phylodiversity.net/bmoore/software.html
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  brian.moore@yale.edu.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA.
authors.forename: Kai M A
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Brian R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003198:Computer Simulation; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software; D013045:Species Specificity