Detecting Non-Brownian Trait Evolution in Adaptive Radiations (2006)
Freckleton, R.P., Harvey, P.H.
Many phylogenetic comparative methods that are currently widely used in the scientific literature assume a Brownian motion model for trait evolution, but the suitability of that model is rarely...
Debating sexual selection and mating strategies (2006)
Pizzari, T., Birkhead, T. R., Blows, M. W., Brooks, R., Buchanan, K. L., Clutton-Brock, T. H., ...
Debating sexual selection and mating strategies (2006)
Pizzari, T., Birkhead, T. R., Blows, M. W., Brooks, R., Buchanan, K. L., Clutton-Brock, T. H., ...
New Inferences from Tree Shape: Numbers of Missing Taxa and Population Growth Rates (2002)
Pybus, O. G., Rambaut, A., Holmes, E. C., Harvey, P. H.
The relative positions of branching events in a phylogeny contain information about evolutionary and population dynamic processes. We provide new summary statistics of branching event times and...
Population dynamics of flaviviruses revealed by molecular phylogenies.
Zanotto, P M, Gould, E A, Gao, G F, Harvey, P H, Holmes, E C
The phylogeny of 123 complete envelope gene sequences was reconstructed in order to understand the evolution of tick- and mosquito-borne flaviviruses. An analysis of phylogenetic tree structure...
Tempo and mode of evolution revealed from molecular phylogenies.
Nee, S, Mooers, A O, Harvey, P H
The analysis of the tempo and mode of evolution has a strong tradition in paleontology. Recent advances in molecular phylogenetic reconstruction make it possible to complement this work by using data...
Brain size and ecology in small mammals and primates.
Harvey, P H, Clutton-Brock, T H, Mace, G M
Comparisons of brain-body size relationships within small mammal and primate families reveal intergeneric differences related to diet and foraging strategy. These same associations between relative...
Population dynamics of HIV-1 inferred from gene sequences.
Grassly, N C, Harvey, P H, Holmes, E C
A method for the estimation of population dynamic history from sequence data is described and used to investigate the past population dynamics of HIV-1 subtypes A and B. Using both gag and env gene...
Pybus, O G, Rambaut, A, Harvey, P H
We describe a unified set of methods for the inference of demographic history using genealogies reconstructed from gene sequence data. We introduce the skyline plot, a graphical, nonparametric...
Population dynamics of flaviviruses revealed by molecular phylogenies.
Zanotto, P M, Gould, E A, Gao, G F, Harvey, P H, Holmes, E C
The phylogeny of 123 complete envelope gene sequences was reconstructed in order to understand the evolution of tick- and mosquito-borne flaviviruses. An analysis of phylogenetic tree structure...
Tempo and mode of evolution revealed from molecular phylogenies.
Nee, S, Mooers, A O, Harvey, P H
The analysis of the tempo and mode of evolution has a strong tradition in paleontology. Recent advances in molecular phylogenetic reconstruction make it possible to complement this work by using data...
Brain size and ecology in small mammals and primates.
Harvey, P H, Clutton-Brock, T H, Mace, G M
Comparisons of brain-body size relationships within small mammal and primate families reveal intergeneric differences related to diet and foraging strategy. These same associations between relative...
Population dynamics of HIV-1 inferred from gene sequences.
Grassly, N C, Harvey, P H, Holmes, E C
A method for the estimation of population dynamic history from sequence data is described and used to investigate the past population dynamics of HIV-1 subtypes A and B. Using both gag and env gene...
Pybus, O G, Rambaut, A, Harvey, P H
We describe a unified set of methods for the inference of demographic history using genealogies reconstructed from gene sequence data. We introduce the skyline plot, a graphical, nonparametric...
Phylogenetic extinction rates and comparative methodology
Species are not independent points for comparative analyses because closely related species share more evolutionary history and are therefore more similar to each other than distantly related...
Species richness among birds: body size, life history, sexual selection or ecology?
Owens, I. P. F., Bennett, P. M., Harvey, P. H.
Why do some avian families contain so many more species than other families? We use comparisons between sister taxa to test predictions arising from six explanations to this puzzle: that differences...
Mammalian metabolism, longevity and parasite species richness.
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) scales allometrically with body mass in mammals, but the reasons why some species have higher or lower metabolic rates than predicted from their body mass remain unclear....
Testing macro-evolutionary models using incomplete molecular phylogenies.
Phylogenies reconstructed from gene sequences can be used to investigate the tempo and mode of species diversification. Here we develop and use new statistical methods to infer past patterns of...
Comparative analyses for adaptive radiations.
Biologists generally agree that most morphological variation between closely related species is adaptive. The most common method of comparative analysis to test for co-evolved character variation is...