How to consider effects of rapid warm adaptation in modeling of ecological impacts of warming?

I would highly appreciate it if my fellow ecologists (biologists) provide their opinion on the thoughts below [esp., shortly tell us which path may be more effective, if they know another way, if...

15 February 2021 3,642 6 View

Does the phylogenetic tree making tool IQTREE use evolutionary placement algorithm?

For my master thesis I am conducting a phylogenetic research and for this I'm using tools like MEGA, IQTREE, FigTree, etc to make a phylogenetic tree. I wanted to know if IQTREE integrates the...

14 February 2021 1,541 2 View

Is there an alternative to PGLS that considers phylogenetic signal when calculating the estimated value?

I have been working on a study trying to estimate body mass in mammals using a skeletal proxy in R. My dataset has high phylogenetic signal (Pagel's Lambda = 0.9) and I am interested in removing...

26 January 2021 6,997 3 View

Question regarding investigation of the nature of bacteria: whether it can cause human diseases or not?

Hi all, Considering that one has the whole genome sequence (annotated) of a bacterium and wants to know if it has the potential to cause human diseases, what steps would you recommend...

26 January 2021 8,732 3 View

Why does Reaction Wood acts opposite in gymnosperm and angiosperms?

I am wondering why the Gymnosperms have an opposite behaviour that Angiosperms in the Reaction Wood (RW). Are there some new findings regarding that? Studies say that causal agents can be the...

10 January 2021 8,744 4 View

Are phylogenetic independent contrasts still used in biology?

I have a regression equation in which I am curious if the amount of scatter around the regression line is driven by phylogeny. I know there is a lot of phylogenetic signal because Pascal's lambda...

22 December 2020 937 1 View

How pH will effect the overpotential for a reaction like OER,ORR etc?

From a theoretical perspective, when we study the electrocatalytic efficiency of a modeled catalyst, we calculate its overpotential. Here the contribution of pH to energy change for each reaction...

08 December 2020 8,726 3 View

What is the reason of suddenly increasing the concentration while evaluating the photocatalytic performance by RhB dye degradation?

I am doing a photocatalytic performance evaluation by RhB dye degradation. I am facing a problem which is: After achieving the absorption -desorption equilibrium, I checked the concentration and...

04 December 2020 3,922 20 View

Is the pH value will affect the calculated overpotential in OER process by DFT?

27 November 2020 1,456 2 View

Does the electrolyte need to be saturated with hydrogen for measuring the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)?

In most cases of measuring the HER the electrolyte is saturated with H2. Similarly for the OER it is saturated with O2. But I have also seen papers that saturate the electrolyte with N2 or Ar....

18 November 2020 4,535 2 View