Hi,

In the meantime I received an answer, reading Adams 2014.

Thanks

2016-05-20 13:08 GMT+03:00 filipe oliveira <filipe.fi...@gmail.com>:

> Hi Emma,
>
> Thank you. My co-worker calculated the nodes, MorphoJ does not seem to
> provide that info but some papers do mention they used it for that end (if
> I am not wrong).
>
> By the way, we obtained a K=0.54 and P=0.001. If I understand it
> correctly, that indicates that there is substantial convergence in the
> data, and that pattern observed isn't random. Does that mean then that the
> phylogenetic signal is week? Or am I interpreting things the wrong way.
>
> In MorphoJ I obtain a significant phylogenetic signal.
>
> Thanks
> Filipe
>
> 2016-05-20 8:43 GMT+03:00 Emma Sherratt <emma.sherr...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Filipe,
>>
>> I believe you cannot directly. When you use the "Map onto phylogeny"
>> option in MorphoJ, you will have appear in the scene tree the tree icon,
>> and two dataset icons below that. "BranchDiffs" and "IndContrasts". From
>> the MorphoJ helpGuide:
>> *Each analysis produces two output data sets: one with the values of the
>> changes along the branches of the phylogeny for the values of shape
>> variables, centroid sizes and covariates in the original dataset, and the
>> other with scores for phylogenetically independent contrasts (Felsenstein
>> 1985) for the same variables.*
>>
>> You could retroactively calculate node position in PC space based on the
>> IndCont and branch lengths. However it may be simpler to run
>> plotGMPhyloMorphoSpace in *geomorph* in R and extract the ancestral
>> states (which although are calculated by maximum likelihood using
>> *phytools* fastanc *) - note that the anc.states matrix returned are
>> states prior to PCA, so all you'd need to do is:
>>
>>     all.data <- rbind(two.d.array(mydata), anc.states) # combine tips and
>> nodes
>>     pcdata <- prcomp(all.data)$x # PCA
>>
>> Em
>>
>> * ML and weighted squared change parsimony are equivalent assuming BM
>> model of evolution
>>
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>>
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>>
>> On 17 May 2016 at 01:32, filipe oliveira <filipe.fi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> do you know how to save the PC values of the ancestral nodes estimated
>>> with Square change Parsimony in MorphoJ?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Best
>>> Filipe
>>>
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>
>
> --
> Filipe Oliveira da Silva
>
> M.Sc. in Evolutionary Biology (MEME)
> Uppsala University (Sweden) and University of Munich - LMU (Germany)
>
> B.Sc. (Honors). Universidade Federal de Vicosa (Brazil).
>
> "In evolution, selection may decide the winner of a given game but
> development non-randomly define the players" Alberch (1980)
>



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M.Sc. in Evolutionary Biology (MEME)
Uppsala University (Sweden) and University of Munich - LMU (Germany)

B.Sc. (Honors). Universidade Federal de Vicosa (Brazil).

"In evolution, selection may decide the winner of a given game but
development non-randomly define the players" Alberch (1980)

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