Statistical modeling for adaptive trait evolution in randomly evolving environment

08/17/2018
by   Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng, et al.
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In past decades, Gaussian processes has been widely applied in studying trait evolution using phylogenetic comparative analysis. In particular, two members of Gaussian processes: Brownian motion and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, have been frequently used to describe continuous trait evolution. Under the assumption of adaptive evolution, several models have been created around Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process where the optimum θ^y_t of a single trait y_t is influenced with predictor x_t. Since in general the dynamics of rate of evolution τ^y_t of trait could adopt a pertinent process, in this work we extend models of adaptive evolution by considering the rate of evolution τ_t^y following the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) process. We provide a heuristic Monte Carlo simulation scheme to simulate trait along the phylogeny as a structure of dependence among species. We add a framework to incorporate multiple regression with interaction between optimum of the trait and its potential predictors. Since the likelihood function for our models are intractable, we propose the use of Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) for parameter estimation and inference. Simulation as well as empirical study using the proposed models are also performed and carried out to validate our models and for practical applications.

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