Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Their Application in Evolutionary Biology: Concepts and Practice - Softcover
Synopsis
Part I: Introduction.- An Introduction to the Phylogenetic Comparative Method.- Working with the Tree of Life in Comparative Studies: How to Build and Tailor Phylogenies to Interspecific Datasets.- An Introduction to Supertree Construction (and Partitioned Phylogenetic Analyses) with a View toward the Distinction between Gene Trees and Species Trees.- Graphical Methods for Visualizing Comparative Data on Phylogenies.- A Primer on Phylogenetic Generalised Least Squares.- Statistical Issues and Assumptions of Phylogenetic Generalised Least Squares.- Part II: Handling Phylogenies in Different Statistical Designs.- Uncertainties due to Within-Species Variation in Comparative Studies: Measurement Errors and Statistical Weights.- An Introduction to Phylogenetic Path Analysis.- Phylogenetic Logistic Regression for Binary Dependent Variables.- Keeping Yourself Updated: Bayesian Approaches in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods with a focus on Markov-chain models of Discrete Character Evolution.- General Quantitative Genetic Methods for Comparative Biology.- Multimodel-Inference in Comparative Analyses.- Part III: Specific Models for Studying Evolutionary Mechanisms.- Simulation of Phylogenetic Data.- Use and Misuse of Comparative Methods in the Study of Adaptation.- Modelling Stabilising Selection: the Attraction of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Models.- Hidden Markov Models for Studying the Evolution of Binary Morphological Characters.- Detecting Phenotypic Selection by Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods.- Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Studying Clade-Wide Convergence.- Metrics and Models of Community Phylogenetics.- Event-Based Cophylogenetic Comparative Analysis.- Phylogenetic Prediction to Identify "Evolutionary Singularities".- Preparing Paleontological Datasets for Phylogenetic Comparative Methods.
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