Article
Simulation-based likelihood approach for evolutionary models of phenotypic traits on phylogeny.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2013
Kutsukake Nobuyuki, Innan Hideki
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) have been used to test evolutionary hypotheses at phenotypic levels. The evolutionary modes commonly included in PCMs are Brownian motion (genetic drift) and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process (stabilizing selection), whose likelihood functions are mathematically tractable. More complicated models of evolutionary modes, such as branch-specific directional selection, have not...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Animals
- Brain
- Computer Simulation
- Evolution, Molecular
- Likelihood Functions
- Models, Genetic
- Organ Size
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Population
- Primates