Hi!
maybe these are inherent

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ciao
paolo

2016-01-27 6:40 GMT+01:00 Christy Hipsley <[email protected]>:

> Dear All,
>
> I'm working with a 3D GM data set and am looking for a specific test of
> convergence that also accounts for phylogeny. After some searching it's
> still not clear to me what is appropriate - so far I only see programs that
> use reduced PC axes as continuous characters, but nothing that uses the
> full Procrustes coordinates. I've applied a phylogenetic ANOVA in Geomorph
> to at least show that after accounting for phylogeny, morphological shape
> is significantly different among ecological groups (in this clade several
> unrelated lineages occur in the same ecological niche).
>
> Does anyone know of a method for testing for convergence across a
> phylogeny using the full shape data or is it always using PC scores? What
> about using scores from a CVA instead, since they are specifically
> addressing the question of differences among the a priori ecological groups
> (and PCA does not)? Could those be mapped onto a phylogeny and modelled in
> terms of BM vs OU, to test if that morphological change is adaptive?
>
> Any advice on these analyses would be appreciated. I'm aware of the
> package Surface but I'm not convinced that is right for my system.
>
> My shape data has a significant phylogenetic signal and I suspect that one
> ecological group in particular is highly convergent.
>
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Christy
>
> School of BioSciences
> University of Melbourne
> Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
> Email: [email protected]
>
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