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Choosing the best ancestral character state reconstruction method [PDF]
Mathematical Biosciences, 2013 Despite its intrinsic difficulty, ancestral character state reconstruction is an essential tool for testing evolutionary hypothesis. Two major classes of approaches to this question can be distinguished: parsimony- or likelihood-based approaches. We focus here on the second class of methods, more specifically on approaches based on continuous-time ...
Royer-Carenzi, Manuela +2 more
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A comparison of ancestral state reconstruction methods for quantitative characters [PDF]
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2016 AbstractChoosing an ancestral state reconstruction method among the alternatives available for quantitative characters may be puzzling. We present here a comparison of five of them, namely the maximum likelihood, restricted maximum likelihood, generalized least squares, phylogenetic independent contrasts and squared parsimony methods.A review of the ...
Royer-Carenzi, Manuela, Didier, Gilles
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Ancestral State Reconstruction, Rate Heterogeneity, and the Evolution of Reptile Viviparity [PDF]
Systematic Biology, 2015 Virtually all models for reconstructing ancestral states for discrete characters make the crucial assumption that the trait of interest evolves at a uniform rate across the entire tree. However, this assumption is unlikely to hold in many situations, particularly as ancestral state reconstructions are being performed on increasingly large phylogenies ...
King, B., Lee, M.
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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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Character-State Reconstruction to Infer Ancestral Protein-Protein Interaction Patterns
Bio-Protocol, 2015 Protein-protein interactions are at the core of a plethora of developmental, physiological and biochemical processes. Consequently, insights into the origin and evolutionary dynamics of protein-protein interactions may provide information on the ...
Florian Rümpler +2 more
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Some Limitations of Ancestral Character-State Reconstruction When Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses [PDF]
Systematic Biology, 1999 The recent explosion of phylogenetic information has had an impact far beyond the eld of systematic biology. Workers in a variety of disciplines are now interested in generating and using phylogenies for their groups (or genes) of interest (e.g., Brooks and McLennan, 1991; Harvey et al., 1995; Martins, 1996).
Clifford W Cunningham
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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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Rapid maximum likelihood ancestral state reconstruction of continuous characters: A rerooting-free algorithm. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2017 Goolsby EW.
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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 ...
Andrii P. Gryganskyi +13 more
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