Phylogenetic Analysis

 

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Liang Liu

Ph.D. Ohio State University

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University,
26 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138


MCZ Room 500C
Tel: 617-496-9389
Fax: 617-495-5667


lliu@oeb.harvard.edu

Research Interests:

，           Phylogenetics

，           Coalescent theory

，           Statistical computing

Softwares:

，           BEST

，           STAR and STEAC (in the R package Phybase)

Publications

Liu, L., and S. Edwards. Phylogenetic Analysis in the Anomaly Zone. Systematic Biology (in press).

 

Liu, L., L. Yu, and D.K. Pearl. Maximum tree - a consistent estimator of the species tree. Journal of Mathematical Biology (in press).

 

Yu, L., R. Yu, L. Liu. Quasi-likelihood for Right-Censored Data in the Generalized Linear Model. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods.(in press)

 

Liu, L. BEST: Bayesian estimation of species trees under the coalescent model. Bioinformatics 2008, 24(21):2542:2543. [reprint]

 

Brumfield, R.T., L. Liu, D. Lum, and S.V. Edwards. Comparison of species tree methods for reconstructing the phylogeny of bearded manakins (Aves: Pipridae: Manacus) from multilocus sequence data. Systematic Biology. 2008, 57(5):719-731.[reprint]

 

Liu, L., D.K. Pearl, R.T. Brumfield, and S.V. Edwards. Estimating species trees using multiple-allele DNA sequence data. Evolution. 2008, 62(8):2080-2091.[reprint]

 

Belfiore, N.M., L. Liu, and C. Moritz. Multilocus phylogenetics of a rapid radiation in the genus Thomomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae). Systematic Biology, 2008, 57:294-310.[reprint]

 

Liu, L. and D.K. Pearl. Species trees from gene trees: reconstructing Bayesian posterior distributions of a species phylogeny using estimated gene tree distributions. Systematic Biology, 2007, 56:504-514.[reprint]

 

Edwards, S.V., L. Liu., and D.K. Pearl. High resolution species trees without concatenation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2007, 104:5936-5941.[reprint]

 

Wolfe, A.D., C. P. Randle, L. Liu and K.E. Steiner. Phylogeny and biogeography of orobanchaceae. Folia Geobotanica, 2005, 40:115-125.

 

Liu, L. and G. Lu. Protective effect of protein-free supernatant of brain homogenate taken from hypoxia preconditioned mice on synaptosome membrane exposed to hypoxia. Chinese Journal of Neuroscience, 2001, 17:373-375.