A phylogenetic model for investigating correlated evolution of substitution rates and continuous phenotypic characters

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 729-744

  Lartillot, Nicolas ^a   Poujol, Raphaël ^a  

^a Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; comparative method; independent contrasts; life history evolution; Markov chain Monte Carlo; molecular dating

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CARNIVORE; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LONGEVITY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; SUBSTITUTION LINE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 78650493648     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq244     Document Type: Article

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