Identical inferences about correlated evolution arise from ancestral state reconstruction and independent contrasts
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Identical inferences about correlated evolution arise from ancestral state reconstruction and independent contrasts.
Inferences about the evolution of continuous traits based on reconstruction of ancestral states have often been considered more error-prone than analysis of independent contrasts. Here we show that both methods in fact yield identical estimators for the correlation coefficient and regression gradient of correlated traits, indicating that reconstructed ancestral states are a valid source of info...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.09.033