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Phylogenetic signal, evolutionary process, and rate.
Systematic biology - 1 Aug 2008
Revell Liam J, Harmon Luke J, Collar David C
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A recent advance in the phylogenetic comparative analysis of continuous traits has been explicit, model-based measurement of "phylogenetic signal" in data sets composed of observations collected from species related by a phylogenetic tree. Phylogenetic signal is a measure of the statistical dependence among species' trait values due to their phylogenetic relationships. Although phylogenetic signal is a measure of...
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