Sentences with phrase «phylogenetic approaches»

MacIver et al. used phylogenetic approaches to document considerable expansions in eye size that occurred well before land colonization.

Using a phylogenetic approach, authors Vanessa Garcia and Stéphane Aris - Brosou examined the evolutionary history of antiviral drug resistance.

Cross-checks with other, known language relationships prove that the phylogenetic approach works - somewhat to Forster's amazement: «When you think about it, there is no reason for languages to be passed down in the same manner as a DNA molecule, and yet they are,» he says.

Not exact matches

The method, called computational Bayesian phylogenetics, forces researchers to explicitly quantify the uncertainty in the models, says linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University, a pioneer of the approach and co-author of the new study.

Langer calls that approach to phylogenetic analyses «old - fashioned.»

Phylogenetic trees add an extra dimension to our endeavours which is why this approach is so special.

Although that approach has been successfully used to decipher relations between organisms, calibrating it to measure the time elapsed since the divergence of phylogenetic branches is problematic; concerning the early evolution of life, there is no generally accepted approach.

We also developed a statistical binning approach that improves multispecies coalescent analyses for handling gene trees with low phylogenetic signal to infer a species tree (SM5)(58).

I think it also helped that a few of us from the same lab presented our research, which really illustrated multiple approaches for understanding diversity through the lens of phylogenetics.»

A possible way to overcome this problem is to adopt model based approaches similar to those used in phylogenetic analyses.

Using this approach, we performed a systematic phylogenetic and protein domain architecture - based study, encompassing the entire proteomes of all human Herpesviridae, as well as of select non-human herpesviruses, to define Strict Ortholog Groups (SOGs).

We therefore used several approaches and different nuclear markers to infer the phylogenetic relationships and to estimate the amount of gene flow between ancient and modern horses.

Current approaches often use static representations of phylogenetic, epidemiological, statistical and evolutionary analysis results that are difficult to relate to one another.

Carnegie researchers are developing new scientific approaches that integrate phylogenetic, chemical and spectral remote sensing perspectives - called Spectranomics - to map canopy function and biological diversity throughout tropical forests of the world.