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Joseph L. Thorley

Poisson Consulting Ltd.
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RadCon: phylogenetic tree comparison and consensus

JL Thorley, RDM Page - Bioinformatics, 2000 - academic.oup.com
… Should a single consensus tree be desired Thorley et al.’s (1998) Cladistic Information
Content (CIC) provides an objective criterion for choosing between consensus trees. RadCon is …

The shape of supertrees to come: tree shape related properties of fourteen supertree methods

…, JO Mcinerney, D Pisani, JL Thorley - Systematic …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Using a simple example and simulations, we explore the impact of input tree shape upon a
broad range of supertree methods. We find that input tree shape can affect how conflict is …

Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography reveals the existence of an Evolutionarily Significant Unit of the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus in the Adriatic (Eastern …

S Stefanni, JL Thorley - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2003 - Elsevier
The sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus is a major component of marine shelf and estuarine
food webs and an important study organism in behavioural research. Yet, despite the sand …

Why do fish strand? An analysis of ten years of flow reduction monitoring data from the Columbia and Kootenay rivers, Canada

RL Irvine, JL Thorley, R Westcott… - River Research and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Stranding of fish due to flow reductions has been documented in the near shore of the Columbia
and Kootenay Rivers, Canada, and can result in sub‐lethal or lethal effects on fish. Ten …

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link: double decay analysis of phylogenetic hypotheses

M Wilkinson, JL Thorley, P Upchurch - Systematic Biology, 2000 - academic.oup.com
In decay analyses the support for a particular split in most-parsimonious trees is its decay
index, that is, the extra steps required of the shortest trees that do not include the split. By …

The information content of consensus trees

JL Thorley, M Wilkinson, M Charleston - … of the 6th Conference of the …, 1998 - Springer
Phylogenetic Information Content, a class of measures of the information provided by consensus
trees based on the number of permitted resolutions of the consensus, is introduced. A …

Congruence between automatic fish counter data and rod catches of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Scottish rivers

JL Thorley, DMR Eatherley, AB Stephen… - ICES Journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The potential utility of rod catch and automatic fish counter data as measures of Atlantic
salmon (Salmo salar) abundance in Scottish rivers was assessed. The trend (long-term) and …

Seasonal variation in rod recapture rates indicates differential exploitation of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, stock components

JL Thorley, AF Youngson… - Fisheries Management …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Differential exploitation of the various components of a fish stock can adversely affect the
diversity, abundance and long‐term survival of the entire stock. Many anadromous salmonid …

The information content of trees and their matrix representations

M Wilkinson, JA Cotton, JL Thorley - Systematic Biology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Any tree can be represented by a variety of matrices from which the tree can be reconstructed.
Such matrix representations (encodings) of trees have been used in a number of contexts, …

Some desiderata for liberal supertrees

M Wilkinson, JL Thorley, D Pisani, FJ Lapointe… - … to reveal the Tree of Life, 2004 - Springer
Although a variety of supertree methods have been proposed, our understanding of these
methods is limited. In turn, this limits the potential for biologists who seek to construct …