Ailene MacPherson

Nov 3, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Yexuan Song |Caroline Colijn |Ailene MacPherson |Simon FRASER

AbstractCharacterizing the patterns and determinants of biological diversity is a central aim of evolutionary biology. Doing so requires developing expectations for clade size, the relationship between the number of species in a clade and its age, for standard diversification models, such as the coalescent or birth-death process.

Sep 29, 2023 | medrxiv.org | Sarah Otto |Ailene MacPherson |Caroline Colijn |Simon FRASER

The authors have declared no competing interest. Funding was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to SPO (RGPIN- 2022-03726), to AM (RGPIN-2022-03113), and to CC (CANMOD; RGPIN-2019-06624), by the Canada Research Chairs Program (SPO and AM) and the Canada 150 Research Chair Program (CC), and by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) operating grant to CoVaRR-Net.