I found General Mixed Yule-coalescent model was commonly used in phylogenetic analysis and metabarcoding approach. I'd like to know the statistic theory of this model and how this model apply to our data analysis . Thanks in advance. Cheers.
You may want to check the article by Tomochika Fujisawa & Timothy Giles Barraclough, titled " Delimiting Species Using Single-locus Data and the Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent (GMYC) Approach: A Revised Method and Evaluation on Simulated Datasets."