Tempo and mode in evolution: phylogenetic inertia, adaptation and comparative methods

By Simon P. Blomberg, Theodore Garland Jr.. 2002

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Subfields: Genetics, Geometry and Topology, Paleontology

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Incorporating 16S Gene Copy Number Information Improves Estimates of Microbial Diversity and Abundance (2012, background): “Phylogenetic signal is a tendency for closely related species to possess similar values of a trait [33].”
Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data (2010, methodology): “This measurement, which can be taken in a variety of ways, is usually described as a measure of ‘phylogenetic signal’ for the charac- ters in question (e.g. Blomberg & Garland 2002; Freckleton, Harvey & Pagel 2002; Blomberg, Garland & Ives 2003; Revell, Harmon & Collar 2008).”
Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments (2003, background): “As stabilizing selection provides an adaptive explanation for the same patterns, the observation of trait conservatism on a phylogeny cannot be used to infer the role of selection versus alternative processes (Leroi et al. 1994; Westoby et al. 1995; Blomberg and Garland 2002).”
Phylogenetic signal, evolutionary process, and rate. (2008, methodology): “Blomberg et al. (2003) also explored heterogeneity in the evolutionary rate with their ACDC (accelerate and decelerate) model for evolu”
phylosignal: an R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal (2016, positive): “…(see Revell et al. 2008 for disentangling both notions), we stick here to the strict statistical deﬁnition of the phylogenetic signal given by Blomberg and Garland (2002), that is, the “tendency for related species to resemble each other more than they resemble species drawn at random from…”
A comparative study of conflict resolution in macaques: insights into the nature of trait covariation (2008, background): “To determine whether phylogenetic methods were appropriate, we investigated the degree to which the variables exhibited phylogenetic signal, which is defined as greater similarity among trait values from more closely related species (Abouheif 1999; Blomberg & Garland 2002 ).”
Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny (2012, methodology): “Key words: comparative methods; food webs; herbivory; Lepidoptera; lowland rain forest; New Guinea; plant defense.”
Evolution of hypsodonty in equids: testing a hypothesis of adaptation (2006, background): “Evolutionary lags can be a function of weak selection for a trait relating to extrinsic factors and/or behavioral compensation (see Blomberg and Garland 2002).”
Profiling invasive fish species: the importance of phylogeny and human use (2005, background): “CV was significantly related to the percentage of variation explained at the ordinal level (Spearman’s rS = 0.81, N = 7, P = 0.027), so characters more variable have more phylogenetic inertia (Blomberg & Garland, 2002).”
Environmental and phylogenetic correlates of Eulemur behavior and ecology (Primates: Lemuridae) (2006, methodology): “Blomberg and Garland (2002) define “phylogenetic signal” as occurring when closely related species tend to display similar traits more than by chance.”
How to measure and test phylogenetic signal (2012, background): “This non-independence can be measured by the ‘phylogenetic signal’, hereafter defined as the ‘tendency for related species to resemble each other more than they resemble species drawn at random from the tree’ (Blomberg & Garland 2002, p. 905).”
Decoupling phylogenetic and functional diversity to reveal hidden signals in community assembly (2017, positive): “Accounting for phylogenetic legacy on traits has been a common approach in species-centred analyses relating species’ environmental preferences to traits after removing the effect of phylogeny (Westoby, Leishman & Lord 1995; Blomberg & Garland 2002; Desdevises et al. 2003).”
Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “We also note that the assumption does not require niche evolution to be constrained (Blomberg & Garland 2002; Münkemüller et al. 2012; Pan et al. 2014) or niche evolution to be slower than any theoretical evolutionary model like Brownian motion (which may often not be the case possibly because…”
OrangFACS: A Muscle-Based Facial Movement Coding System for Orangutans (Pongo spp.) (2012, background): “functionality and it may be possible that the facial movements we found in orangutans are due to phylogenetic inertia (Blomberg and Garland 2002; Wilson 1975) or an allometric effect (Dobson 2009a).”