Graham J. Slater

Dec 5, 2024 | biorxiv.org | David W Cerny |Graham J. Slater

AbstractTime-calibrated phylogenies are key to macroevolutionary hypothesis testing and parameter inference, but their estimation is difficult when the number of tips is large. Despite its attractive properties, the joint Bayesian inference of topology and divergence times remains computationally prohibitive for large supermatrices.

Mar 20, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Anna Wisniewski |Graham J. Slater |Jonathan A Nations

New Results doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.05.490807 AbstractMorphology often reflects ecology, enabling the prediction of ecological roles for taxa that lack direct observations such as fossils. In comparative analyses, ecological traits, like diet, are often treated as categorical, which may aid prediction and simplify analyses but ignores the multivariate nature of ecological niches. Futhermore, methods for quantifying and predicting multivariate ecology remain rare.