Model selection in ecology and evolution

JB Johnson, KS Omland - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2004 - cell.com
Recently, researchers in several areas of ecology and evolution have begun to change the
way in which they analyze data and make biological inferences. Rather than the traditional …

Molecularclock methods for estimating evolutionary rates and timescales

SYW Ho, S Duchêne - Molecular ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular clock presents a means of estimating evolutionary rates and timescales using
genetic data. These estimates can lead to important insights into evolutionary processes and …

The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 7 in the UK

V Hill, L Du Plessis, TP Peacock, D Aggarwal… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The first SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern (VOC) to be designated was lineage B. 1.1. 7, later
labelled by the World Health Organization as Alpha. Originating in early autumn but …

Early phylogenetic estimate of the effective reproduction number of SARSCoV2

A Lai, A Bergna, C Acciarri, M Galli… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To reconstruct the evolutionary dynamics of the 2019 novelcoronavirus recently causing an
outbreak in Wuhan, China, 52 SARSCoV2 genomes available on 4 February 2020 at …

[HTML][HTML] Model selection may not be a mandatory step for phylogeny reconstruction

S Abadi, D Azouri, T Pupko, I Mayrose - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Determining the most suitable model for phylogeny reconstruction constitutes a fundamental
step in numerous evolutionary studies. Over the years, various criteria for model selection …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular Evolution of Zika Virus during Its Emergence in the 20th Century

O Faye, CCM Freire, A Iamarino, O Faye… - PLoS neglected …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus first isolated in Uganda in 1947. Although
entomological and virologic surveillance have reported ZIKV enzootic activity in diverse …

MrBayes 3.2: efficient Bayesian phylogenetic inference and model choice across a large model space

F Ronquist, M Teslenko, P Van Der Mark… - Systematic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Since its introduction in 2001, MrBayes has grown in popularity as a software package for
Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. With …

Discovery of seven novel Mammalian and avian coronaviruses in the genus deltacoronavirus supports bat coronaviruses as the gene source of alphacoronavirus and …

PCY Woo, SKP Lau, CSF Lam, CCY Lau… - Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recently, we reported the discovery of three novel coronaviruses, bulbul coronavirus
HKU11, thrush coronavirus HKU12, and munia coronavirus HKU13, which were identified …

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (h ymenoptera: F ormicidae)

PS Ward, SG Brady, BL Fisher… - Systematic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the evolutionary history of a hyperdiverse clade, the ant subfamily M
yrmicinae (H ymenoptera: F ormicidae), based on analyses of a data matrix comprising 251 …

Improving the accuracy of demographic and molecular clock model comparison while accommodating phylogenetic uncertainty

G Baele, P Lemey, T Bedford, A Rambaut… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Recent developments in marginal likelihood estimation for model selection in the field of
Bayesian phylogenetics and molecular evolution have emphasized the poor performance of …