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On Sackin’s original proposal: the variance of the leaves’ depths as a phylogenetic balance index

BACKGROUND: The Sackin indexS of a rooted phylogenetic tree, defined as the sum of its leaves’ depths, is one of the most popular balance indices in phylogenetics, and Sackin’s paper (Syst Zool 21:225–6, 1972) is usually cited as the source for this index. However, what Sackin actually proposed in h...

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Published in:BMC Bioinformatics
Main Authors: M. Coronado, Tomás, Mir, Arnau, Rosselló, Francesc, Rotger, Lucía
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181513/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32326884
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-3405-1
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