Virus host shifts are generally associated with novel adaptations to exploit the cells of the
new host species optimally. Surprisingly, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus …

Evolutionary biology is multivariate, and advances in phylogenetic comparative methods for
multivariate phenotypes have surged to accommodate this fact. Evolutionary trends in …

Phylogenetic comparative methods comprise the general endeavor of using an estimated
phylogenetic tree (or set of trees) to make secondary inferences: about trait evolution …

Researchers studying the evolution of viral pathogens and other organisms increasingly
encounter and use large and complex data sets from multiple different sources. Statistical …

Morphological diversity may arise rapidly as a result of adaptation to novel ecological
opportunities, but early bursts of trait evolution are rarely observed. Rather, models of …

Genomic data have had a profound impact on nearly every biological discipline. In
systematics and phylogenetics, the thousands of loci that are now being sequenced can be …

Abstract Models based on the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process have become standard for the
comparative study of adaptation. have cast doubt on this practice by claiming statistical …

Working with high-dimensional phylogenetic comparative data sets is challenging because
likelihood-based multivariate methods suffer from low statistical performances as the …

The goal of phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) is to study the distribution of
quantitative traits among related species. The observed traits are often seen as the result of …

Studies in comparative neuroanatomy and of the fossil record demonstrate the influence of
socio-ecological niches on the morphology of the cerebral cortex, but have led to oftentimes …