ArticleSystematic biology2024
Fast Bayesian Inference of Phylogenies from Multiple Continuous Characters.
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- Building phenotypic character matrices for phylogenetic inference: exploration of 35 years of practice.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Pooled it
- Do morphometric data improve phylogenetic reconstruction? A systematic review and assessment.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Pooled it
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- Bayesian inference of mixed Gaussian phylogenetic models.BMC bioinformatics · 2026Article
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- A Tale of Too Many Trees: A Conundrum for Phylogenetic Regression.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
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- PhyloJunction: A Computational Framework for Simulating, Developing, and Teaching Evolutionary Models.Systematic biology · 2024Article
- A macroevolutionary analysis of European Late Upper Palaeolithic stone tool shape using a Bayesian phylodynamic framework.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- PhyloJunction: a computational framework for simulating, developing, and teaching evolutionary models.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Time-scaled phylogenetic trees are an ultimate goal of evolutionary biology and a necessary ingredient in comparative studies. The accumulation of genomic data has resolved the tree of life to a great extent, yet timing evolutionary events remain challenging if not impossible without external information such as fossil ages and morphological characters. Methods for incorporating morphology in tree estimation have lagged behind their molecular counterparts, especially in the case of continuous characters. Despite recent advances, such tools are still direly needed as we approach the limits of what molecules can teach us. Here, we implement a suite of state-of-the-art methods for leveraging continuous morphology in phylogenetics, and by conducting extensive simulation studies we thoroughly validate and explore our methods' properties. While retaining model generality and scalability, we make it possible to estimate absolute and relative divergence times from multiple continuous characters while accounting for uncertainty. We compile and analyze one of the most data-type diverse data sets to date, comprised of contemporaneous and ancient molecular sequences, and discrete and continuous morphological characters from living and extinct Carnivora taxa. We conclude by synthesizing lessons about our method's behavior, and suggest future research venues.
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