An implementation of a phylogenetic comparative method. It can fit univariate among-species Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models of phenotypic trait evolution, where the trait evolves towards a primary optimum. The optimum can be modelled as a single parameter, as multiple discrete regimes on the phylogenetic tree, and/or with continuous covariates. See also Hansen (1997) tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.2307/2411186"), Butler & King (2004) tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1086/426002"), Hansen et al. (2008) tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00412.x").
Maintainer: Bjørn Tore Kopperud kopperud@protonmail.com
Authors:
Jason Pienaar
Kjetil Lysne Voje
Steven Hecht Orzack
Thomas F. Hansen
Other contributors:
Mark Grabowski [contributor]
Hansen, T. F. (1997). Stabilizing Selection and the Comparative Analysis of Adaptation. Evolution, 51(5), 1341. https://doi.org/10.2307/2411186
Hansen, T. F., Pienaar, J., & Orzack, S. H. (2008). A comparative method for studying adaptation to a randomly evolving environment. Evolution, 62(8), 1965–1977. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00412.x
Labra, A., Pienaar, J., & Hansen, T. F. (2009). Evolution of Thermal Physiology in Liolaemus Lizards: Adaptation, Phylogenetic Inertia, and Niche Tracking. The American Naturalist, 174(2), 204–220. https://doi.org/10.1086/600088
Hansen, T. F., & Bartoszek, K. (2012). Interpreting the evolutionary regression: The interplay between observational and biological errors in phylogenetic comparative studies. Systematic Biology, 61(3), 413–425. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syr122
Escudero, M., Hipp, A. L., Hansen, T. F., Voje, K. L., & Luceño, M. (2012). Selection and inertia in the evolution of holocentric chromosomes in sedges (Carex, Cyperaceae). New Phytologist, 195(1), 237–247. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04137.x
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