The phrase "ancestral method" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to traditional techniques or practices that have been passed down through generations.
Example: "The ancestral method of farming has been preserved by the community for centuries, ensuring sustainable agriculture."
Alternatives: "traditional method" or "heritage technique".
We employed the ancestral area method from Bremer [ 39] to infer the direction and sequence of island and mainland colonization of C. flaveola in the West Indies.
Authors' response: Given the high computational demands on the ancestral reconstruction method (more than a week of wall-clock time), we find it impractical to test multiple root positions.
Developments in ancestral reconstruction methods, particularly more realistic likelihood models of molecular evolution, allow for the accurate reconstruction of more ancient proteins than previously possible.
A number of improvements in ancestral inference methods could enhance comparisons among closely related species.
Computer simulations were employed to test the performance of ancestral reconstruction methods with a focus on inference of non-stationary codon bias and its causes in the D. melanogaster subgroup.
In light of current theories on the evolution of migration in birds [e.g., 5] and putative North American origins for bats, we use ancestral reconstruction methods to investigate if 1) migration evolved in bats as it is proposed for birds, and 2) whether migration may have appeared early in the evolutionary history of bats or whether it is a recently evolved trait.
Here, we use site-directed mutagenesis and ancestral reconstruction methods in order to characterize the absorption spectra of ancestral passerine/parrot SWS1 pigments, and to investigate SWS1 spectral tuning mechanisms using the great bowerbird pigment as a model system.
The evolution of lepidopteran host ranges and of two mummification features (position of emergence hole and degree of hardening of mummy) within the Rogadinae were assessed using MP and Bayesian ancestral reconstruction methods.
The phylogenetic location of specific amino acid substitutions was inferred by using ancestral reconstruction methods [ 70] to estimate the most probable residue at each node under the WAG+F+Γ amino acid substitution model [ 53, 71].
We used two alternative event-based ancestral area methods: (1) a Bayesian approach to dispersal-vicariance analysis (DIVA [ 73]) as implemented in the computer software Reconstruct Ancestral States in Phylogenies (RASP [ 74]) and, (2) the dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis analysis (DEC [ 75]) implemented in the computer program LAGRANGE.
