Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence

DM Grossnickle, WH Brightly, LN Weaver… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Tests of phenotypic convergence can provide evidence of adaptive evolution, and the
popularity of such studies has grown in recent years due to the development of novel …

Challenges and advances in methods for measuring phenotypic convergence

DM Grossnickle, WH Brightly, LN Weaver, KE Stanchak… - 2022 - europepmc.org
Tests of phenotypic convergence can provide evidence of adaptive evolution, and the
popularity of such studies has grown in recent years due to the development of novel …

A cautionary note on quantitative measures of phenotypic convergence

DM Grossnickle, WH Brightly, LN Weaver, KE Stanchak… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Tests of phenotypic convergence can provide evidence of adaptive evolution, and the
popularity of such studies has grown in recent years due to the development of novel …

The definition, recognition, and interpretation of convergent evolution, and two new measures for quantifying and assessing the significance of convergence

CT Stayton - Evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Convergent evolution is an important phenomenon in the history of life. Despite this, there is
no common definition of convergence used by biologists. Instead, several conceptually …

Quantification provides a conceptual basis for convergent evolution

MP Speed, K Arbuckle - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
While much of evolutionary biology attempts to explain the processes of diversification, there
is an important place for the study of phenotypic similarity across life forms. When similar …

The effects of increasing the number of taxa on inferences of molecular convergence

GWC Thomas, MW Hahn, Y Hahn - Genome Biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Convergent evolution provides insight into the link between phenotype and genotype.
Recently, large-scale comparative studies of convergent evolution have become possible …

Accounting for within-species variation in continuous trait evolution on a phylogenetic network

B Teo, JP Rose, P Bastide, C Ané - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Within-species trait variation may be the result of genetic variation, environmental variation
or measurement error for example. In phylogenetic comparative studies, failing to account …

What does convergent evolution mean? The interpretation of convergence and its implications in the search for limits to evolution

CT Stayton - Interface focus, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Convergent evolution is central to the study of life's evolutionary history. Researchers have
documented the ubiquity of convergence and have used this ubiquity to make inferences …

How phenotypic convergence arises in experimental evolution

P Simoes, I Fragata, J Santos, MA Santos, M Santos… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary convergence is a core issue in the study of adaptive evolution, as well as a
highly debated topic at present. Few studies have analyzed this issue using a “real-time” or …

A comparative test for divergent adaptation: inferring speciation drivers from functional trait divergence

SAS Anderson, JT Weir - The American Naturalist, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Ecological differentiation between lineages is widely considered to be an important driver of
speciation, but support for this hypothesis is mainly derived from the detailed study of a …