Edward Susko

Director, Statistical Consulting Service
Statistics Undergraduate Advisor and Honours Coordinator
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dalhousie University

Telephone: (902) 494-8865
Fax : (902) 494-5130
Office: Room 202 in the Chase Building
email: edward.susko@gmail.com
mail: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
         Dalhousie University
         Halifax, Nova Scotia
         Canada B3H 4R2

Representative Publications

Ho, L.S.T.H. and Susko, E. (2022). Ancestral state reconstruction with large numbers of sequences and edge-length estimation. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 84:21

Susko, E., Steel, M. and Roger, A.J. (2021). Conditions under which distributions of edge length ratios on phylogenetic trees can be used to order evolutionary events. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 526:110788

Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2021). Long Branch Attraction Biases in Phylogenetics. Systematic Biology. 70:838--843.

Youssef, N., Susko, E. and Bielawski, J.P. (2020). Consequences of stability-induced epistasis for substitution rates. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37:3131--3148.

Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2020). On the Use of Information Criteria for Model Selection in Phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37:549--562.

Wang, H., Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2019). The relative importance of modeling site pattern heterogeneity versus partition-wise heterotachy in phylogenomic inference. Systematic Biology. 68:1003--1019.

Mingrone, J., Susko, E. and Bielawski, J.P. (2019). Modified likelihood ratio tests for positive selection. Bioinformatics. 35:2545--2554.

Roger, A.J. and Susko, E. (2018). Evidence for an ancient origin of extant methanogenic archaeal lineages is weak. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2:1676--1677.

Susko, E., Lincker, L. and Roger, A.J. (2018). Accelerated estimation of frequency classes in site-heterogeneous profile mixture models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35:1266-1283.

Susko, E. (2017). Bayes Factor Biases for Non-nested Models and Corrections. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 9:290-309.

Jones, C.T, Youssef, N., Susko, E. and Bielawski, J.P. (2017). Shifting balance on a static mutation-selection landscape: a novel scenario of positive selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34:391-407.

Mingrone, J., Susko, E. and Bielawski, J. (2016). Smoothed bootstrap aggregation for assessing selection pressure at amino acid sites. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33:2976--2989.

Wang, H., Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2016). Split-specific Bootstrap Measures for Quantifying Phylogenetic Stability and the Influence of Taxon Selection. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 105:114--125.

Susko, E. (2015). Bayesian long branch attraction bias and corrections. Systematic Biology. 64:243--255.

Wang, H., Susko, E. and Roger, A.J.(2014). An amino acid substitution-selection model adjusts residue fitness to improve phylogenetic estimation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31:779--792.

Susko, E. (2014). Tests for Two Trees using Likelihood Methods. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31:1029--1039.

Susko, E. (2013). Likelihood ratio tests with boundary constraints using data-dependent degrees of freedom. Biometrika. 100:1019--1023.

Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2013). Problems with estimation of ancestral frequencies under stationary models. Systematic Biology. 62:330--338.

Zou, L., Susko, E. Field, C. and Roger, A.J.(2012). Fitting Nonstationary General-time-reversible Models to Obtain Edge-lengths and Frequencies for the Barry-Hartigan Model. Systematic Biology. 61:927--940.

Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2012). The Probability of Correctly Resolving a Split as an Experimental Design Criterion in Phylogenetics. Systematic Biology. 61:811--821.

Susko, E. (2011). Improved Least Squares Topology Testing and Estimation. Systematic Biology. 60:668--675.

Wu, J. and Susko, E. (2011). A Test for Heterotachy Using Multiple Pairs of Sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28:1661--1673.

Susko, E. (2010). First-Order correct bootstrap support adjustments for splits that allow hypothesis testing when using maximum likelihood estimation. Molecular Biology and Evolution.27:1621--1629.

Wu, J. and Susko, E. (2010). Phylogenies can be inferred through pairwise sequence comparisons for most general time reversible models. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 263:587--589.

Wang, H., Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2009). PROCOV: maximum likelihood estimation of protein phylogeny under covarion models. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9:225.

Susko, E. (2009). Bootstrap Support is Not First Order Correct. Systematic Biology. 58:211--233.