RANNALA Bruce
- Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis, Davis, United States of America
- Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Human Evolution, Molecular Evolution, Other, Phylogenetics / Phylogenomics, Phylogeography & Biogeography, Population Genetics / Genomics, Speciation, Systematics / Taxonomy
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2017-12-05  PREPRINT | Reconstruction of body mass evolution in the Cetartiodactyla and mammals using phylogenomic data Emeric Figuet, Marion Ballenghien, Nicolas Lartillot, Nicolas Galtier https://doi.org/10.1101/139147 Recommended by Bruce Rannala based on reviews by Bruce Rannala and 1 anonymous reviewer Predicting small ancestors using contemporary genomes of large mammals Recent methodological developments and increased genome sequencing efforts have introduced the tantalizing possibility of inferring ancestral phenotypes using DNA from contemporary species. One intriguing application of this idea is to exploit the apparent correlation between substitution rates and body size to infer ancestral species' body sizes using the inferred patterns of substitution rate variation among species lineages based on genomes of extant species [1]. |
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| 2017-12-05 PREPRINT | Reconstruction of body mass evolution in the Cetartiodactyla and mammals using phylogenomic data Emeric Figuet, Marion Ballenghien, Nicolas Lartillot, Nicolas Galtier https://doi.org/10.1101/139147 Recommended by Bruce Rannala based on reviews by Bruce Rannala and 1 anonymous reviewer Predicting small ancestors using contemporary genomes of large mammals Recent methodological developments and increased genome sequencing efforts have introduced the tantalizing possibility of inferring ancestral phenotypes using DNA from contemporary species. One intriguing application of this idea is to exploit the apparent correlation between substitution rates and body size to infer ancestral species' body sizes using the inferred patterns of substitution rate variation among species lineages based on genomes of extant species [1]. |