Building megaphylogenies for macroecology: taking up the challenge.

ABSTRACT: The last decades have seen an upsurge in ecological studies incorporating phylogenetic information with increasing species samples, motivated by the common conjecture that species with common ancestors should share some ecological characteristics due to niche conservatism. This has been carried out using various methods of increasing complexity and reliability: using only taxonomical classification; constructing supertrees that incorporate only topological information from previously published phylogenies; or building supermatrices of molecular data that are used to estimate phylogenies with evolutionary meaningful branch lengths. Although the latter option is more informative than the others, it remains under-used in ecology because ecologists are generally unaware of or unfamiliar with m

SUBMITTER: Roquet C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4001083 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature