Predicting the Ancestral Character Changes in a Tree is Typically Easier than Predicting the Root State

Choosing the best ancestral character state reconstruction method

(2012) Manuela Royer-Carenzi et al.   MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES

Problems With Estimation of Ancestral Frequencies Under Stationary Models

(2012) Edward Susko et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Reconstruction for the Potts model

(2011) Allan Sly   ANNALS OF PROBABILITY

Entropy increase and information loss in Markov models of evolution

(2011) Elliott Sober et al.   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Analysis on the reconstruction accuracy of the Fitch method for inferring ancestral states

(2011) Jialiang Yang et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Distribution of branch lengths and phylogenetic diversity under homogeneous speciation models

(2011) Tanja Stadler et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Branch Lengths on Birth–Death Trees and the Expected Loss of Phylogenetic Diversity

(2011) Arne Mooers et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Analyzing the Fitch Method for Reconstructing Ancestral States on Ultrametric Phylogenetic Trees

(2010) Louxin Zhang et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Inferring ancestral sequences in taxon-rich phylogenies

(2010) Olivier Gascuel et al.   MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES

Robustness of Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction to Phylogenetic Uncertainty

(2010) Victor Hanson-Smith et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Greedy Selection of Species for Ancestral State Reconstruction on Phylogenies: Elimination Is Better than Insertion

(2010) Guoliang Li et al.   PLoS One

Maximum parsimony on subsets of taxa

(2009) Mareike Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The Ecological Dynamics of Clade Diversification and Community Assembly

(2008) Mark A. McPeek   AMERICAN NATURALIST

More Taxa Are Not Necessarily Better for the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States

(2008) Guoliang Li et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY