No substitute for real data: A cautionary note on the use of phylogenies from birth-death polytomy resolvers for downstream comparative analyses

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3207-3216

  Rabosky, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Diversification; Phenotypic evolution comparative methods; Phylogenetic uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIRD; BIRTH RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CLASSIFICATION; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84955207628     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12817     Document Type: Article

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