Sentence examples for as a continuous character from inspiring English sources
Finally, we analyzed group size as a continuous character.
Dioicous mosses were more likely to have small spores if spore size was coded as a discrete character, but not if it was coded as a continuous character.
Each value was independently optimised as a continuous character across the chosen phylogeny, using square change parsimony optimisation implemented in Mesquite [ 59], following the methodology of Graham et al. [ 20].
However, HD appears to behave as a continuous character, and the distinction between early and late material is not always clear, with new candidates that may be classified in different neighboring HD groups, depending on the definitions used in the different countries.
When M-CGH data is analyzed such that gene absence events are grouped together with all other gene divergence events (i.e. as a continuous character model), it represents a significant loss of information both from a technical and from a biological point of view.
Group size is analyzed as a continuous character using the highest mean group size found in the literature, and also as a discrete character which allows the inclusion of more species [see Additional file 6] since many authors do not provide a mean value but instead offer a description of group sizes.
The size of the patagia, which has been mentioned as a synapomorphy of Sesiidae, Castniidae and Brachodidae, is a continuous character with much variation among Lepidoptera and therefore was not included in the present study.
The value of a continuous character evolving on a phylogenetic tree is commonly modelled as the location of a particle moving under one-dimensional Brownian motion with constant rate.
