improving existing methods, and helping other researchers to use them. Phylogenetic comparative methods use phylogenies to ask interesting evolutionary questions. They can be used to: study speciation ...

By contrast, BinCons, which depends less on the phylogenetic relationship ... to fully identify functional sequences by comparative genomics methods. Galaxy provides an elegant interface for ...

Within this broad scope, the project has the following objectives: (1) To use phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM) to understand coupled or modular adaptations in body proportions across major ...

I use phylogenetic comparative methods to study the macroevolution of traits, particularly related to behaviour, across a variety of study systems (e.g. birds, mammals, spiders, fish, human languages) ...

Areas of expertise include community ecology, experimental design of field and greenhouse studies, species distribution modeling, climate change vulnerability analyses, phylogenetic comparative ...

I also work on conservation issues in East Africa and conduct fieldwork in Zanzibar. I am interested the adaptive significance of coloration in mammals and I use comparative phylogenetic methods, ...

First, we plan to infer the history of flower color shifts in the tribe using a new phylogeny constructed from transcriptomic data. Building on this phylogenetic framework, we will use comparative ...