Hi Jon,

So there are are a few ways I can imagine doing this. One thing you should 
probably not do though is rescale the branches of the tree directly, at least 
in the case of OU, as this leads to incorrect covariances for pairs of taxa 
where one or either does not survive to the present day (see this in press 
note: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12201/abstract), as 
I suspect you have in your tree.

Probably the most appropriate way is therefore to 1) split the VCV into one or 
more matrices describing the variances and covariances over the intervals that 
you’re interested in; 2) transform the matrices according the model and 
associated parameters you want over that interval, 3) stick them back together, 
and 4) draw your data directly from a multivariate normal distribution using 
the transformed covariance matrix. I’ll send you some code off list to do that 
(it’s also in the corrected dryad pack accompanying the note above)

Graham
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On Jun 2, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Jonathan Mitchell 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hello all,

I'm trying to figure out how to rescale certain branches of a tree
according to an early burst model.

First I've generated a tree using TreeSim

N <- 100

Nn <- N*2 -1

test <- sim.bd.taxa(N, 1, 1, 0.8, complete=FALSE)


Then I 'paint' the branches depending on whether or not they occur in the
first or second half of the clade's history:


Root <-max(nodeHeights(test2))

Age <- 0.5*Root

test2 <- make.era.map(test[[1]][[1]], c(0, Age))


Using rescale() from geiger, I can reformat the whole tree, and using
sim.rates() from phytools, it's easy to simulate different sigmas. But what
I'd like to do is also simulate different evolutionary modes (OU and EB) in
the different regimes (like Graham's MEE paper). Is there a way to rescale
the branches in one portion of the tree according to the OU alpha or EB r
parameters?

Thanks!
-- Jon

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