Juan Carlos Tecson Gonzalez

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Apart from mrmodeltest, what application can be used to determine the best-fit model for constructing Bayesian trees?

Constructing phylogenetic trees in BEAST package and MrBayes requires an AIC selected best-fit substitution model. Running a model search in mrmodeltest requires a script created in PAUP.

29 March 2017 6,910 4 View

What is the timeline that distinguish historical DNA from ancient DNA?

We sometimes define ancient DNA as genetic material extracted from fossils and subfossils, where as historical DNA are genetic materials derived from museum specimens (non-fossil) collected over...

20 January 2015 4,266 4 View

Apart from the elaboration of the casque, what traits would best represent the effects of sexual selection in hornbills?

Understanding the development of ornamentation (casque, skin colour, tail and wing patterns) in hornbills is among the great hornbill questions interesting, and would be an interesting model for...

25 August 2014 9,173 10 View

Rhabdornithidae has been placed as a basal clade to Sturnidae. Is it fit to retain this clade of endemic Philippine creepers as a valid family?

Phylogeny indicates a deep node between clade for Sturnidae and basal Rhabdornis clade in Zuccon, Dario; Cibois, Alice; Pasquet, Eric & Ericson, Per G.P. (2006): Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence...

14 January 2014 7,577 1 View