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I also applied a model with a uniform distribution over divergence models (M Uniform ).
Oaks et al. [ 7] discuss how placing a uniform prior over the number of divergence parameters (denoted | τ | here, and as Ψ in [ 4]) imposes an "U-shaped" prior over divergence models (t; see Figure five(B) of [ 7]).
whereas the models with Uniform or Dirichlet-process priors over divergence models tend to overestimate variance in divergence times (Plots M X of Additional file 1: Figures S11 13).
By reparameterizing the model, introducing more flexible priors on demographic and divergence-time parameters, and implementing a non-parametric Dirichlet-process prior over divergence models, I improved the robustness, accuracy, and power of the method for estimating shared evolutionary history across taxa.
The model I used for these analyses had a Dirichlet-process prior over divergence models and two demographic parameters (θ A and (θ D ) for each pair of taxa, in addition to the n i −1 coalescent times (see Table 4 for details).
Due to the larger number of pairs, I used a different hyperprior on the concentration parameter for the M D P P model; I used a prior of t∼ D P(χ∼ G a m m a(1.5,18.1)) over divergence models for the model M D P P. All other aspects of the four models in Table 2 were identical to those used in the validation analyses described above.
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This pattern of inter-species "over-divergence" was clearly concordant with the intraspecies substitution rate and went up to 80% for the sites that had mutated more than 10 times in the human mtDNA tree.
Accidental hybridization among shell-breeders is independent of prezygotic species barriers and unresponsive to reinforcement of pre-mating isolation, such that hybridization rates may not decrease over long divergence times despite possible costs through reduced hybrid fitness.
In order to compare tissue expression profiles between species, each gene was represented as a vector of relative expression abundance (RA) across the sampled tissues to avoid over-estimating divergence based on absolute expression intensity.
The COX1 locus of the Anguillicolidae exhibits a likely barcoding gap with over 5.6% sequence divergence, exceeding by more than twofold the proposed threshold (2%) for Metazoa [ 57].
Over time, divergence evolves rapidly, due primarily to the origin of new divergent regions.
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