Caitlin Cherryh's Projects
Evaluating the impact of conflicting phylogenetic signal on hypotheses of early animal evolution by applying concordance factors
A tutorial for Advanced Scientific Python Programming on organizing, documenting, and distributing code
Investigating the impact of filtering putatively recombinant genes on phylogenetic inference. We quantify the difference in tree topology (both concatenated and summary coalescent methods) between trees with and without putatively recombinant genes, for 4 empirical phylogenetic datasets and 3 tests for recombination.
Applying a mixture of trees model to the Metazoan phylogeny
Developing a statistic to test tree likeness and identify genes that don't fit the model.
Benchmarking existing tests for treelikeness in phylogenetic data and introducing a new test for quantifying treelikeness, the tree proportion.