Evolutionary pathways and trajectories in antibiotic resistance

F Baquero, JL Martinez, V F. Lanza… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Evolution is the hallmark of life. Descriptions of the evolution of microorganisms have
provided a wealth of information, but knowledge regarding “what happened” has precluded …

Environmental DNA time series in ecology

M Balint, M Pfenninger, HP Grossart, P Taberlet… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Ecological communities change in time and space, but long-term dynamics at the century-to-
millennia scale are poorly documented due to lack of relevant data sets. Nevertheless …

Efficiently controlling for case-control imbalance and sample relatedness in large-scale genetic association studies

W Zhou, JB Nielsen, LG Fritsche, R Dey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for thousands of phenotypes in large biobanks,
most binary traits have substantially fewer cases than controls. Both of the widely used …

rptR: Repeatability estimation and variance decomposition by generalized linear mixed‐effects models

MA Stoffel, S Nakagawa… - Methods in ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Intra‐class correlations (ICC) and repeatabilities (R) are fundamental statistics for
quantifying the reproducibility of measurements and for understanding the structure of …

The coefficient of determination R2 and intra-class correlation coefficient from generalized linear mixed-effects models revisited and expanded

S Nakagawa, PCD Johnson… - Journal of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The coefficient of determination R 2 quantifies the proportion of variance explained by a
statistical model and is an important summary statistic of biological interest. However …

Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects

CK Cornwallis, A van't Padje, J Ellers, M Klein… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
For over 300 million years, insects have relied on symbiotic microbes for nutrition and
defence. However, it is unclear whether specific ecological conditions have repeatedly …

Scalable generalized linear mixed model for region-based association tests in large biobanks and cohorts

W Zhou, Z Zhao, JB Nielsen, LG Fritsche, J LeFaive… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
With very large sample sizes, biobanks provide an exciting opportunity to identify genetic
components of complex traits. To analyze rare variants, region-based multiple-variant …

Rs for Correlated Data: Phylogenetic Models, LMMs, and GLMMs

AR Ives - Systematic Biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Many researchers want to report an to measure the variance explained by a model. When
the model includes correlation among data, such as phylogenetic models and mixed …

Sparse evidence for selection on phenotypic plasticity in response to temperature

PA Arnold, AB Nicotra… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phenotypic plasticity is frequently assumed to be an adaptive mechanism by which
organisms cope with rapid changes in their environment, such as shifts in temperature …

Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals

T Bonnet, MB Morrissey, P De Villemereuil, SC Alberts… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The rate of adaptive evolution, the contribution of selection to genetic changes that increase
mean fitness, is determined by the additive genetic variance in individual relative fitness. To …