The underlying mechanisms responsible for variation in the phylogenetic dispersion of functional traits are presently not clear. However, it is known that central gene systems consisting of many ...

Phylogenetic regression is frequently used in macroevolutionary studies, and its statistical properties have been thoroughly investigated. By contrast, phylogenetic ANOVA has received relatively less ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Rates of molecular evolution vary substantially between lineages, and a growing effort is directed at uncovering the causes and consequences ...

Genomic sequencing can be used to work out the evolutionary relationships of different species, or groups of organisms. This is known as phylogenetics. Species with more similarity in their genomes ...