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The difference between all rates leading to the two supporting character state combinations minus all rates leading to the opposing character state combinations, ΔQ, was calculated as a measure for whether the character correlation is generated by interdependent transition rates (Figure 5).
Furthermore, hypotheses of character correlation are best tested in a phylogenetic context, which has hitherto not been done.
Afterwards we calculated the overall character correlation (D statistic) between reproductive mode and five life-history traits (i.e., clutch size, habitat, tadpole environment, nuptial spine, egg pigmentation), and the correlation state-by-state (dij).
To identify the dataset to use for tests of character correlation, we measured clade support and compared values (Table 2) for eight nodes commonly examined in taxonomic and molecular studies: Octopodiformes (V. infernalis and all octopods), Octopoda, Incirrata, Cirrata, Decapodiformes, Loliginidae, Bathyteuthoidea + Oegopsida, and Oegopsida.
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ARL, MSP and FGH generated the character matrix; MSP tested character correlations and assessed ancestral reconstruction.
In other words, our ability to detect true character correlations in evolutionary history may be compromised.
Overall character correlations were measured using statistic D, which is the sum of the absolute values of individual d ij 's between characters [ 75].
However, comparisons between sister clades allow us to test character correlations, because two sister branches are independent of each other after diverging.
Studying the evolutionary correlation of broad concepts, rather than that of their component characters, is fraught with difficulty, while limits of available data restrict the detail in which component character correlations can be analyzed in this case.
In addition we pointed out the temperament and character correlations of separation anxiety in these patients, which were shared across the disorders (HA, SD) or typical of the addictions (CO, ST).
Because polytomies can compromise character optimization and tests of character correlations, characters were optimized on a fully resolved tree, which is the majority rule tree resulting from a MrBayes analysis (see May-Collado and Agnarsson 2007 for details) [ 58] without collapsing nodes with less than 50% frequency (using the contype = allcompat option).
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