Measurement errors should always be incorporated in phylogenetic comparative analysis

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 340-346

  Silvestro, Daniele ^a,b,c   Kostikova, Anna ^b,c   Litsios, Glenn ^b,c   Pearman, Peter B ^d,e   Salamin, Nicolas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Comparative methods; Macroevolution; Measurement error; Model selection; Ornstein Uhlenbeck

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925233084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12337     Document Type: Article

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