evol.rate.mcmc: Bayesian MCMC method for identifying exceptional phenotypic diversification in a phylogeny

Description

This function takes a phylogenetic tree and data for a single continuously valued character and uses a Bayesian MCMC approach to identify the phylogenetic location of a shift in the evolutionary rate through time.

Usage

evol.rate.mcmc(tree, x, ngen=10000, control=list(), ...)
# S3 method for evol.rate.mcmc
print(x, ...)
# S3 method for evol.rate.mcmc
summary(object, ...)
# S3 method for summary.evol.rate.mcmc
print(x, ...)
# S3 method for summary.evol.rate.mcmc
plot(x, ...)

Value

An object of class "evol.rate.mcmc" consisting of at least the following elements:

mcmc: results from the MCMC run.
tips: list of stips in rate \(\sigma_1^2\) for each sampled generation of MCMC (to polarize the rate shift).

Arguments

tree: an object of class "phylo" (a phylogenetic tree).
x: a vector of tip values for species in which names(x) contains the species names of tree, an object of class "evol.rate.mcmc", or (in the case of the S3 summary method) an object of class "summary.evol.rate.mcmc".
ngen: an integer value indicating the number of generations for the MCMC.
control: a list of control parameters containing the following elements: sig1: starting value for \(\sigma_1^2\); sig2: starting value for \(\sigma_2^2\); a: starting value for a; sd1: standard deviation for the normal proposal distribution for \(\sigma_1^2\); sd2: standard deviation for the normal proposal distribution for \(\sigma_2^2\); kloc: scaling parameter for tree move proposals - \(1/\lambda\) for the reflected exponential distribution; sdlnr: standard deviation on the log-normal prior on \(\sigma_1^2/\sigma_2^2\); rand.shift: probability of proposing a random shift in the tree (improves mixing); print: print frequency for the MCMC; sample: sample frequency.
object: for the S3 summary method, an object of class "evol.rate.mcmc".
...: other optional arguments.

Author

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

Details

Default values of control are given in Revell et al. (2012).

References

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.

Revell, L. J., D. L. Mahler, P. Peres-Neto, and B. D. Redelings. (2012) A new method for identifying exceptional phenotypic diversification. Evolution, 66, 135-146.