TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN COMPARATIVE DATA: BEHAVIORAL TRAITS ARE MORE LABILE

By Simon P. Blomberg, Theodore Garland Jr., Anthony R. Ives. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2003

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Subfields: Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density (2007, methodology): “We therefore tested the assumption that more closely related species share more similar trait values using the method suggested by Blomberg et al . (2003) , as implemented in the MATLAB program  . We found a significant, or almost significant, phylogenetic signal for all host traits except ma”
A linear-time algorithm for Gaussian and non-Gaussian trait evolution models. (2014, methodology): “Also included is the kappa transformation (Pagel 1997) where all branch lengths are raised to the power in [0,1], the delta transformation (Pagel 1999)where the distance from the root to all nodes is raised to the power >0, the similar transformation by Grafen (1989), and the acceleration/decelerati”
Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity (2015, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. ecological traits relate to biodiversity patterns is hampered by current phylogenies, which provide limited information about trait evolution, even when they are accurate (Freckleton et al. 2002, Blomberg et al. 2003, Cadotte et al. 2013).”
Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny (2012, methodology): “Phylogenetic signal was assessed using the K statistic (Blomberg et al. 2003) that compares the observed trait distribution in community samples to expectations under Brownian motion model of trait evolution.”
Factors Influencing Leaf Chlorophyll Content in Natural Forests at the Biome Scale (2018, methodology): “The strength of the phylogenetic signal in Chl a, Chl b, Chl a+b, Chl a/b across plant species was quantified using Blomberg’s K statistics, which tests whether observed traits vary across a phylogeny (Blomberg et al., 2003).”
The broad‐scale ecology of energy expenditure of endotherms (2005, methodology): “We tested the residuals of both models for a phylogenetic signal by using a z-statistic to compare variance in the contrasts calculated for the real tree to that of 100 randomized trees – a method simplified from that described by Blomberg et al. (2003).”
Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis: A Modeling Approach for Adaptive Evolution (2004, background): “Although his approach is both powerful and flexible, it has received little attention (but see Hansen et al. 2000; Martins 2000; Blomberg et al. 2003; code for regression analysis of a limited, two-regime model is also available within the package COMPARE, Martins 2004).”
mvmorph: an r package for fitting multivariate evolutionary models to morphometric data (2015, methodology): “As for the univariate case, the ﬁt of multivariate models of continuous trait evolution is assessed by maximization of the log-likelihood eqn 2 (e.g. Martins & Hansen 1997; Blomberg, Garland & Ives 2003; O’Meara et al. 2006).”
Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods (2009, result): “(b) Homology assignment and paralogue pruning Phenetic sequence clustering was similar to that of Dunn et al. (2008), though taxon sampling criteria were relaxed considerably as described below.”
Beyond the Venn diagram: the hunt for a core microbiome. (2012, background): “A key assumption in these tests is that closely related species respond similarly to environmental factors (Blomberg et al., 2003).”