TY  - GEN
AU  - M. Coronado, Tomas
AU  - Mir, Arnau
AU  - Rossello, Francesc
AU  - Rotger, Lucia
PY  - 2020
DO  - 10.1186/s12859-020-3405-1
SN  - 1471-2105
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/22855
AB  - 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...
LA  - eng
PB  - BioMed Central (BMC)
KW  - Phylogenetic tree
KW  - Balance index
KW  - Sackin index
KW  - Total cophenetic index
KW  - Uniform model
KW  - Yule model
KW  - Maximally balanced tree
KW  - Phylogeny
KW  - Algorithms
KW  - Models, Theoretical
TI  - On Sackin's original proposal: the variance of the leaves' depths as a phylogenetic balance index
TY  - research article
ER  -