The reconstructed tree in the lineage-based model of protracted speciation (Q154193): Difference between revisions

The authors present a likelihood formula for protracted speciation models, where rates of species behaviour can depend on both their age and time. The formula utilizes a new approach first developed by \textit{A. Lambert} [Ann. Probab. 38, No. 1, 348--395 (2010; Zbl 1190.60083)] and based on the contour of the phylogenetic tree. The authors consider ``the reconstructed trees spanned by all extant species, by all good extant species, or by all representative species, which are either good extant species or incipient species representative of some good extinct species.'' They prove that if the speciation rate does not depend on the species status, then all reconstructed trees are given by a coalescent point process, where the coalescence times between two consecutive tips are independent, identically distributed random variables. They also provide numerical methods to compute the common distribution of these coalescence times.