My data is genome size for 683 bacterial species.
I used ace() function (APE package) selecting the Phylogenetic Independent Contrast (PIC) method to estimate the genome size for the internal nodes of my tree. The problem is the values I get for each node is very small (~ 500 - 1000). The genome size for the bacteria I used is something around 2-6 Mb. These small estimated values does not seem logical for me. Does anyone have an idea why this happens?
Keaghan Yaxley
Hey mate - I cant say much for the genome siz, it’s not my area, but I’ve used a package called phylopars for continous ASRs before. It’s an ML method and let’s you fit and compare different models. It’s got good supporting documents on GitHub too.
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