We are meeting this semester (Fall 2022) on Tuesdays 1:00-2:00pm in Gant West W416. Subscribe to systematics listserv to receive emails containing connection information (or write to someone listed in Contact Info).

December 6, 2022

This week we will work through Chapter 9 (Analysis of diversification with phylogenies) in the Revell and Harmon book.

November 29, 2022

This week we will look at Chapter 8 (Ancestral State Reconstruction) in the Revell and Harmon book.

November 21, 2022

Not meeting - Thanksgiving Break Week

November 14, 2022

This week we will tackle the last part (section 7.4 to the end) of the long chapter 7 in the Revell and Harmon book.

November 7, 2022

This week we are tackling the first part (through section 7.3) of the long chapter 7 in the Revell and Harmon book.

November 1, 2022

Zach will lead discussion on this paper:

CJ Pardo-De la Hoz, ID Medeiros, JP Gibert, P-L Chagnon, N Magain, J Miadlikowska, and F Lutzoni. 2022. Phylogenetic structure of specialization: a new approach that integrates partner availability and phylogenetic diversity to quantify biotic specialization in ecological networks. Ecology and Evolution 12(3):e8649. DOI:10.1002/ece3.8649

October 25, 2022

We will read chapter 6 of the Revell and Harmon book (discrete morphology models).

October 18, 2022

This week we decided to read Revell’s Phylogenetic PCA paper now that this method has been mentioned in a couple of chapters:

Revell, L. 2009. Size-correction and principal components for interspecific comparative studies. Evolution 63-12:3258–3268.

October 11, 2022

We will read the 5th chapter of the Revell and Harmon book (extend BM and OU models by allowing rates and correlations to vary across the tree).

October 4, 2022

We will read the fourth chapter of the Revell and Harmon book (estimating parameters of, and comparing fit of, Brownian motion, early-burst, and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models).

September 27, 2022

Mark Stukel will lead discussion on the following paper:

S. Naser-Khdour, BQ Minh, and R Lanfear. 2022. Assessing confidence in root placement on phylogenies: an empirical study using nonreversible models for mammals. Systematic Biology 71:959-972. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syab067

September 20, 2022

We will read the third chapter of the Revell and Harmon book (PGLS).

September 13, 2022

We will read the second chapter of the Revell and Harmon book (independent contrasts).

September 6, 2022

We will read the first chapter of the soon-to-be-released book by Liam Revell and Luke Harmon entitled “Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R”.

August 30, 2022

Organizational meeting. One possibility that we should discuss is the soon-to-be-released book by Liam Revell and Luke Harmon entitled “Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R”.