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I need to run a phylogenetic ANOVA in PDAP.
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Is there any example of a study on amino acid sites under positive selection (dN/dS) that have been tested in vitro (confirmatory or not)? By dN/dS, I mean any amino acid sites in any species...
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I attached a page of a thought provoking book written by A. E. Wilder-Smith and published in 1981. Does anyone know, if his criticism is still valid? Are there any convincing models, why the...
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One discontent with the role of the epigenetics in the evolutionary thought is that it´s, by definition, just soft inheritance. But what is rough inheritance? What determine that one inheritance...
06 June 2014 6,336 4 View
Is it a theory or a working hypothesis? Forgive my ignorance, I am a physicist and I know very little about evolutionary biology.
06 June 2014 6,449 13 View
I want to use BEAST to do EBSP analyses with two loci. I open two "input.nex" files in BEAUti to generate a "output.xml" file (In the Trees panel select Extended Bayesian skyline plot for the tree...
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I have been interested on the theoretical foundations of the Systematics, especially when this area meets molecular biology and started to ignore other information sources as chromosomes or...
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Could we have an idea about the relative importance of gene saturation vs selection pressure for explaining incongruent topologies for a given taxon between different gene sequences?
06 June 2014 3,592 4 View
I have nexus file (*.nxs) which contains a lot of taxa and the sequence length is also very long, so I cannot keep copy pasting it as it will take a lot of time. I want to know if there is any...
06 June 2014 6,174 6 View
Is data exploration in phylogenetic inference important?
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Genetic Algorithms use Darwinian principles to solve mathematical (programming) problems. Are they actually useful in obtaining knowledge in the opposite direction, i.e, in Evolutionary Biology.
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I am currently examining the scaling of bone length and circumference in different groups of theropod dinosaurs. At the moment I have split the groups and carried out separate major-axis...
15 May 2014 2,914 3 View
I'm looking for the more promiscuous mating systems
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Some stand the viewpoint that the two are the same process but in different time and scale. The opposed viewpoint is these punctuated changes of nature even neutralize microevolution in the effect...
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Inversion hypotheses suggest that during the course of evolution structures along the dorsoventral (DV) axis have taken on an orientation opposite that of an ancestral form.
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What is your practice of your first explanation or teaching with children (
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Recently I installed GeneMapper software in a new windows XP partition but I can't install it due to this error: "Your current system drive (@) has only -1 MB free space (required 200 MB)" but my...
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One might expect a multifurcation in morphological cladistic analysis, but full resolution might be effected by chance duplication of parallel traits or trait reversals on the part of radiative...
26 April 2014 6,281 7 View
There has been a few articles about the importance of cryptic species for quantifying biodiversity and conservation biology but are these species so important in more fundamental ecology and...
17 April 2014 2,634 40 View
I am trying to get it done with different programs, but they are not of publication quality.
04 April 2014 8,978 4 View
I am investigating intraspecific fur color variants in bats. Since studies are lacking in this perspective in tropics, I set out to try gene primers from certatriodactyls for MC1R and all in vain....
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