Université de Fribourg

Inference of evolutionary jumps in large phylogenies using Lévy processes

Duchen, Pablo ; Leuenberger, Christoph ; Szilágyi, Sándor M. ; Harmon, Luke ; Eastman, Jonathan ; Schweizer, Manuel ; Wegmann, Daniel

In: Systematic Biology, 2017, p. -

Although it is now widely accepted that the rate of phenotypic evolution may not necessarily be constant across large phylogenies, the frequency and phylogenetic position of periods of rapid evolution remain unclear. In his highly influential view of evolution, G. G. Simpson supposed that such evolutionary jumps occur when organisms transition into so-called new adaptive zones, for instance...