Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop

Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop

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Exercise 3-3: Applying quantitative genetics models to evolutionary trees

Instructor: Josef Uyeda

In this activity, we will be applying old friends from our MCMCglmm exercises to phylogenetic comparative data, and learning about how Gaussian models work.

Script:

• QG2PCMs.nb.Rmd
• Toy4ped.rds

Background readings:

• Hadfield & Nakagawa, 2010.General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology:phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous andcategorical characters
• Felsenstein, 1985. The Comparative Method