Josef C. Uyeda

2 months ago | biorxiv.org | Liam Taylor |Josef C. Uyeda |Richard Prum |Bowdoin College

AbstractOne puzzling feature of avian life histories is that individuals in many different lineages delay reproduction for several years after they finish growing. Intraspecific field studies suggest that various complex social contexts--such as cooperative breeding groups, nesting colonies, and display leks--result in delayed reproduction because they require forms of sociosexual development that extend beyond physical maturation.

Oct 28, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Sergei Tarasov |Josef C. Uyeda |Finnish Museum

AbstractA recent study (Louca and Pennell, 2020) spotlighted the issue of model congruence, or asymptotic unidentifiability, in time-dependent birth-death models used for reconstructing species diversification histories on phylogenetic trees. The present work investigates this issue in state-dependent speciation and extinction (SSE) models, commonly used to study trait-dependent diversification.

May 9, 2024 | science.org | Yuanfeng Xu |Hao Xu |Alexander Shapson-Coe |Josef C. Uyeda

PerspectiveEvolutionNew analyses show that trait variability links evolution across vastly different timescalesJosef C. Uyeda [email protected] and Joel W. McGlothlin [email protected] Info & AffiliationsScience9 May 2024Vol 384, Issue 6696pp. 622-623AbstractGenetic variation is essential for evolutionary change. Over a few generations, variation within populations can be used to predict how traits evolve under natural selection.

Apr 1, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Sergei Tarasov |Josef C. Uyeda |Finnish Museum

AbstractA recent study (Louca and Pennell, 2020) spotlighted the issue of model congruence, or asymptotic unidentifiability, in time-dependent birth-death models used for reconstructing species diversification histories on phylogenetic trees. The phenomenon of model congruence implies that any given timetree can be equally likely explained by various diversification scenarios.

Jan 8, 2024 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Diego Porto |Finnish Museum |Josef C. Uyeda |István Mikó

1 INTRODUCTION Reconstruction of ancestral states for discrete characters is commonly used to understand trait evolution in organisms. However, most methods for ancestral reconstruction were developed for individual characters, which represent some elementary phenotypic observation with a limited number of states.