Mike Steel

Research interests

Publications

• Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2377

• Phylogeny

  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611974485

• Likelihood-based tree reconstruction on a concatenation of aligned sequence data sets can be statistically inconsistent

  Theoretical Population Biology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2014.12.005

• Networks: expanding evolutionary thinking

  Trends in Genetics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2013.05.007

• The Influence of Rate Heterogeneity among Sites on the Time Dependence of Molecular Rates

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mss140

• Acquisition of 1,000 eubacterial genes physiologically transformed a methanogen at the origin of Haloarchaea

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1209119109

• Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life

  Entropy · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.3390/e12071733

• Phylogenomics with incomplete taxon coverage: the limits to inference

  BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-155

• Phylogenetics

  Journal · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198509424.001.0001

• Detecting autocatalytic, self-sustaining sets in chemical reaction systems

  Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2003.11.020

• The (Super)Tree of Life: Procedures, Problems, and Prospects

  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.010802.150511

• Properties of phylogenetic trees generated by Yule-type speciation models

  Mathematical Biosciences · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0025-5564(00)00061-4

• Subtree Transfer Operations and Their Induced Metrics on Evolutionary Trees

  Annals of Combinatorics · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-001-8006-8

• Distributions of cherries for two models of trees

  Mathematical Biosciences · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0025-5564(99)00060-7

• Parsimony, Likelihood, and the Role of Models in Molecular Phylogenetics

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026364

• A supertree method for rooted trees

  Discrete Applied Mathematics · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-218x(00)00202-x

• Modeling the covarion hypothesis of nucleotide substitution

  Mathematical Biosciences · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0025-5564(97)00081-3

• General Time-Reversible Distances with Unequal Rates across Sites: Mixing Γ and Inverse Gaussian Distributions with Invariant Sites

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1006/mpev.1997.0452

• Links between maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony under a simple model of site substitution

  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02459467

• Evolution of chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll: the problem of invariant sites in sequence analysis.

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.5.1930

• Recovering evolutionary trees under a more realistic model of sequence evolution.

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040136

• Recovering a tree from the leaf colourations it generates under a Markov model

  Applied Mathematics Letters · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0893-9659(94)90024-8

• Confidence in evolutionary trees from biological sequence data

  Nature · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1038/364440a0

• Distributions of Tree Comparison Metrics--Some New Results

  Systematic Biology · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/42.2.126

• Distributions of Tree Comparison Metrics-Some New Results

  Systematic Biology · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2992536

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