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I'm a third year uni student, and have an assignment to do on phylogenetics. We can choose any question to ask as long as it can be answered with a phylogenetic tree. We will then search for data...
08 October 2019 4,946 3 View
Hello, I use Geneious and installed the RaxML plug-in to run maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses. When running a neighbor-joining tree build, I get what I would expect to be the...
09 September 2019 1,424 3 View
Does exist a modern phylogentic / molecular study, or being in preparation, on the Pieridae and Papilionidae including African ones (with a large spectrum including at least all the "species...
12 August 2019 9,845 6 View
I am comparing phylogenetic data sets in elasmobranchs from GenBank, and am under the assumption that in most species COI will be faster, or have a higher mutation rate, even though both loci are...
08 August 2019 1,675 5 View
In phylogenetic studies why concatenate dataset from nuclear orgin with dataset from chloroplast orgin? Both datasets are different.
06 June 2019 3,703 6 View
What is the difference between Bayesian and likelihood algorithms and which is preferred for phylogenetic study between different species
06 June 2019 10,176 2 View
In our lab, we have been using bootstrap statistics and posterior probabilities (in case of Bayesian trees) to assess clade supports in phylogenetic analyses. I was wondering if there were other...
06 June 2019 5,412 9 View
Hey all, I'm using MrBayes 3.2 with four fossil calibrations. My entire MrBayes block is in the attached screenshot. My topology from the analysis is absolutely fine, as are the ESS values, but...
22 May 2019 1,578 5 View
05 May 2019 7,707 6 View
I used pitfall traps to collect ant on islands, thus, different size of islands contain different number of pitfall traps. Ants are really super-population, the abundance data based on individuals...
05 May 2019 2,828 2 View
I have a set of 16 species of nematodes, i build a mitochondrial and nuclear phylogeny with them, and i found discordance between the two phylogenetic hypothesis. One of the common reasons for...
05 May 2019 6,997 6 View
I am studying Ethiopian amphibians now and I need the software to analyse the phylogenetic relation ship of amphibians.
05 May 2019 968 8 View
Hi, I'd like to know what difference makes using FULL PROTEIN SEQUENCES versus PROTEIN CONSERVED DOMAIN SEQUENCES in order to make a phylogenetic tree. In my case, the goal is to put in...
24 April 2019 3,333 4 View
I want to work on using geometric morphometrics to inform the phylogenetic relationships of fishes and potentially provide insights on the morphological implications of lifestyle transitions over...
04 April 2019 6,475 20 View
I am in a situation where I would like to test the correlation between the genetic distance and sequence melting temperature. However, there doesn't appear to be a simple/clear means of coding...
04 April 2019 7,903 6 View
The network was constructed using a median joining in NETWORK Program.
04 April 2019 3,183 1 View
04 April 2019 8,979 5 View
I have been using phylocom to investigate the phylogenetic community structure of saproxylic beetles. I have been able to use phylocom to obtain the output file that contains the rankHI and...
31 March 2019 9,204 1 View
Hello, is there a possibility to conduct an analysis like a phylogenetic glm with two categorical characters, one binary and one with three to four states? Pagel test unfortunately needs always...
03 March 2019 1,961 1 View
Hello Everyone, I am working on a protein which is present in all species of all kingdoms. so I have done the phylogenetic study with around 100 homologous protein sequences using PhyML. 1. Now I...
03 March 2019 1,405 3 View
Because of time limitation, I will not be able to visit Mexico in summer 2019. Yet, I would need a few species from there for some phylogenetic work by autumn 2019. These species are: G....
03 March 2019 4,207 2 View
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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...
03 March 2019 9,870 1 View
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