Using a stochastic Brownian motion model of trait change, we illustrate that the expected community-wide dispersion of traits varies with phylogenetic tree shape. We then use data on body mass for mammals to evaluate the accuracy with which phylogeny can predict the empirical distribution of traits...
we found that most of the trait correlations were the products of coordinated evolution (Figs 2,3,4,5)13,36. This might be due to greater divergences in deep nodes of the phylogenetic tree compared to descendent lineages (family or genus), which can frequently be the case ...
Recent studies have detected strong phylogenetic signals in tree–fungus associations for diseased leaves and mycorrhizal symbioses. However, the extent of plant phylogenetic constraints on the free-living soil mycobiome remains unknown, especially at broad geographic scales. Here, 343 soil samples were ...
A morphology-based phylogeny illustrated that the oldest of our species occurred in the headwater and that specific phylogenetic distances from the root location in the tree were significantly related to the specific longitudinal occurrences in the Loire. Furthermore, traits such as oxygen consumption,...
Filter Taxa: Go toData > Filter Taxaand select the taxa which you want to hide from the phylogenetic tree. Edit Traits: This option is available in theDatamenu. You can add the new traits or remove the existing ones. Find and Replace: With the help of this feature, you can find a ...
In contrast, the gene tree based reconstructions achieved in general a better sensitivity, closer to that achieved by DPCP on the TPCoPWtest set and with a noticeable improvement on the TPPPIset using both GSHGT and GSCOR. GSCORGeneTachieves an more than 2 fold increase using the unweighted...
Adh1-2, with the same gene structure as Adh1-1, was a putative nonfunctional outparalog derived by gene duplication (loss of intron 7, Figure 1). Gene duplication leading to Adh1-2, as inferred by the tree topology (Figure 2), occurred before Malus and Pyrus diverged, but probably ...
Chapter 3 examined the degree to which the abundance of herbivores in a rain forest community is explained by the functional traits of host plants. Per-tree caterpillar and leaf miner abundance was measured together with total leaf biomass (kg), percentage of immature foliage, specific leaf area...
UniFrac distance is computed by calculating the fraction of branch lengths of a combined phylogenetic tree that are not shared between two communities19. Thus, two communities that mostly have members of phylogenetically distinct clades would have large a UF distance, whereas communities that consist ...
with 40,675 SNPs (Table1). The resulting phylogeny showed genomes fromE. coliphylotypes andShigellaaccurately grouped into their respective clades (Fig.3);Salmonellaspp.S. bongoriandS. entericawere clearly distinguished and were an outgroup to allEscherichia(Fig.S1). This tree also resolved contested...