Can big data overcome a lack of georeferencing precision? Is it worth checking locality data one by one for mountain taxa?

For a forthcoming study on alpine taxa, I will use locality data (e.g. extracted from GBIF) associated with climate data on a 1km2 grid (worldclim). The goal is to identify whether a couple of...

02 March 2019 3,902 4 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

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

Is there any index number for first author in journal article like h index?

In every research paper, first author contribution is comparatively high. To tribute their work is there any index number for an author acting as first author in different papers?

15 December 2020 8,231 14 View

How to approach native speaker to be a co-author and how to build trust?

For non-natives, a manuscript is often rejected based on the reason that idea is not presented clearly. Please ask a native colleague to proofread it. There is no offense to say that I am...

26 November 2020 7,495 12 View

How to remove a article ?

In 2015, I upload a working paper that is now published in another version (publication in 2020). Between these two version, authorship changed. Is it possible to remove the following items (the...

23 November 2020 604 2 View

EDGAR - How to add Whole genome sequence of the strain (novel) to EDGAR comparative genomic tool for comparison?

Hi all, I am interested to do a comparative genome analysis using EDGAR comparitive genomic tool. I have a novel bacteria whose genome sequence was obtained by us and now I was to do compare this...

10 November 2020 3,489 3 View

Collaborating VS contributing Authorship?

Can you help me to understand the significance of the difference between collaborating and contributing authorship (eg, GBD)? Do they put similar weightage to University applicant assessors?

29 October 2020 4,443 3 View

Which methods (or modern programms) are used to assess the biodiversity of highest vascular plants?

27 October 2020 240 3 View