Journal
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 416-425Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12034
Keywords
community convergence; contingency; determinism; ecomorph; Hansen model; OUCH; phylogenetic comparative methods; replicated adaptive radiation
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- FAS Science Division Research Computing Group at Harvard University
- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of California at Davis
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We present a method, SURFACE', that uses the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stabilizing selection model to identify cases of convergent evolution using only continuous phenotypic characters and a phylogenetic tree. SURFACE uses stepwise Akaike Information Criterion first to locate regime shifts on a tree, then to identify whether shifts are towards convergent regimes. Simulations can be used to test the hypothesis that a clade contains more convergence than expected by chance. We demonstrate the method with an application to Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders, and present numerical simulations showing that the method has desirable statistical properties given data for multiple traits. The r package surface is available as open source software from the Comprehensive R Archive Network.
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