Analysis on the reconstruction accuracy of the Fitch method for inferring ancestral states [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2011 Background As one of the most widely used parsimony methods for ancestral reconstruction, the Fitch method minimizes the total number of hypothetical substitutions along all branches of a tree to explain the evolution of a character. Due to the extensive
Grünewald Stefan +3 more
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Investigation of the validity of two Bayesian ancestral state reconstruction models for estimating Salmonella transmission during outbreaks. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Ancestral state reconstruction models use genetic data to characterize a group of organisms' common ancestor. These models have been applied to salmonellosis outbreaks to estimate the number of transmissions between different animal species that share ...
Samuel Bloomfield +7 more
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Effects of phylogenetic signal on ancestral state reconstruction. [PDF]
Systematic Biology, 2012 One of the standard tools used to understand the processes shaping trait evolution along the branches of a phylogenetic tree is the reconstruction of ancestral states (Pagel 1999).
Salamin, N., Litsios, G.
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Using ancestral state reconstruction methods for onomasiological reconstruction in multilingual word lists [PDF]
Language Dynamics and Change, 2018 Current efforts in computational historical linguistics are predominantly concerned with phylogenetic inference. Methods for ancestral state reconstruction have only been applied sporadically.
Johann-Mattis LIst +4 more
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Early hominin arrival in Southeast Asia triggered the evolution of major human malaria vectors [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSome species of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles mosquitoes in Southeast Asia are highly anthropophilic and efficient vectors of human malaria parasites, while others primarily feed on non-human primates (NHP) and transmit NHP malaria parasites.
Upasana Shyamsunder Singh +13 more
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Time-dependent-asymmetric-linear-parsimonious ancestral state reconstruction [PDF]
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2016 International audienceThe time-dependent-asymmetric-linear parsimony is an ancestral state reconstruction method which extends the standard linear parsimony (a.k.a.
Didier, Gilles, Gilles Didier
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Morphological evolution in Hyles Hübner, 1819 hawkmoths (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae): reconstructing the ancestral Hyles habitus [PDF]
Nota Lepidopterologica, 2020 Molecular phylogenetic studies suggest that similar wing and body patterns in the hawkmoth genus Hyles Hübner, [1819] do not necessarily reflect a close phylogenetic relationship. To improve our understanding of morphological evolution in these organisms,
Anna K. Hundsdoerfer, Ian J. Kitching
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THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ANCESTRAL CHARACTER STATES [PDF]
Evolution, 1996 The problem of error in the phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral character states is explored by developing the model of Frumhoff and Reeve (1994). Information about the evolutionary rate of change within a character is inferred from the distribution of its character states on a known phylogeny, and this information is used to impose confidence ...
Ted R, Schultz +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Species of Osmanthus are economically important ornamental trees, yet information regarding their plastid genomes (plastomes) have rarely been reported, thus hindering taxonomic and evolutionary studies of this small but enigmatic genus.
Yongfu Li +5 more
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Journal of Fungi, 2022 Fungi of the Conidiobolus group belong to the family Ancylistaceae (Entomophthorales, Entomophthoromycotina, Zoopagomycota) and include over 70 predominantly saprotrophic species in four similar and closely related genera, that were separated ...
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