Sentences with phrase «ancestral state reconstruction»

Dr. Beaulieu is developing a new set of ancestral state reconstruction methods that make more realistic assumptions about how characters evolve across very large phylogenies.

Conclusions: Ancestral state reconstruction coupled with temporal trend analysis demonstrated that epidemic MRSA CC22 has an evolving MGE composition, and indicates that this important MRSA lineage has continued to adapt to changing selective pressure since its emergence.

Multiple gains and losses of these five MGEs were identified in the CC22 phylogeny using ancestral state reconstruction.

Ancestral state reconstruction suggests that contractile mesodermal midline cells existed in bilaterian ancestors.

An ancestral state reconstruction based on our data and on a survey of bilaterian musculature (table S3) favored the presence of an axochord in protostome ancestors (fig.

Using this system, we demonstrate an application of ancestral state reconstruction to assess geographic range dynamics in a lineage lacking a fossil record.

In annelids, these cells differentiate into an axochord; our investigation of chaetognath musculature and an ancestral state reconstruction based on comparative anatomy (fig.

The ancestral state reconstruction revealed patterns of convergent evolution, with high AR fins originating independently at least 22 times.