Dear all,
What are the pros and cons of the two methods to do pgls with a
non-ultrametric tree? Many thanks!
1) Convert the additive tree to ultrametric using penalized likelihood
(Sanderson 2002) with ape:: chronopl after cross-validation to find the
best lambda.
2) Use weighted least-squares
Dear Solomon,
I don;t know where you are trying to go with this, but any proper
implementation of PGLS (I am not talking about methods that transform the
branch lengths with things like Grafen's rho, Pagel's lambda or OU models)
should be able to use any tree of any shape. This is the same as
Hi there,
I've come across several methods to test for differences in the rate of
evolution among branches in a tree, but I can't find methods to test for
differences in rates of evolution of different traits on the same species
(ex. if wing size evolution is faster than than overall body size
Hi Dr. Garland,
I got the impression that an ultrametric tree is needed for comparative
analysis from this book http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783662435496ch.
2 pg. 38: most comparative analyses assume that the tree is ultrametric,
as the majority of analyses deal with evolution of phenotypic
Hello all,
I'm trying to estimate a lambda for my phylogeny but something strange
happened. I used 3 different packages to confirm the estimated lambda
value. My tree is ultrametric (with branchlengths in million years), it has
59 tips and 58 internal nodes. Here is what I did:
I really think this post could be useful for the discussion
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-phylo/2010-September/000773.html
best
paolo
Da: R-sig-phylo r-sig-phylo-boun...@r-project.org per conto di Solomon Chak
tc...@vims.edu
Inviato: giovedì 16
Hi Solomon,
Comparatives methods are routinely applied to non-ultrametric trees,
contrary to the text you quoted. See the last chapter of that book.
The phylogeny-based analyses that do generally require ultrametric
trees are those that fit some form of a lineage diversification model,
because
Yep, we've all been down this road before, but I'm too old to remember!
Thanks and cheers,
Ted
From: Paolo Piras [paolo.pi...@uniroma3.it]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 2:38 PM
To: Solomon Chak; Theodore Garland Jr
Cc: r-sig-phylo@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-phylo] PGLS with
One approach is found in:
Adams, D.C. 2013. Comparing evolutionary rates for different phenotypic traits
on a phylogeny using likelihood. Systematic Biology. 62:181-192.
Dean
Dr. Dean C. Adams
Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Department of Statistics
If everything is log-transformed then the variance of phylogenetically
independent contrasts or, equivalently, the MSE (if I remember correctly) from
a PGLS analysis is directly related to the rate of trait evolution. I'm not
sure of the best way to test for statistical differences among
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