Marc Manceau

TL;DR: RPANDA is an R package that implements model‐free and model‐based phylogenetic comparative methods for macroevolutionary analyses and provides investigators with a set of tools for exploring patterns in phylogenetic trees and fitting various models to these trees, thereby contributing to the ongoing development of phylogenetics in the life sciences.

TL;DR: A model where the evolutionary dynamics of traits involved in interspecific interactions are influenced by species similarity in trait values and where one can specify which lineages are in sympatry and a maximum likelihood based approach is developed to fit this model to combined phylogenetic and phenotypic data.

TL;DR: A very general comparative phylogenetic framework for (multi)-trait evolution that can be applied to both ultrametric and nonultrametric trees and paves the way for the consideration of a much broader series of models in which lineages coevolve, meaning that trait changes in one lineage are influenced by the value of traits in other, interacting lineages.

TL;DR: A model of biodiversity in which all individuals have identical demographic rates, metacommunity size is allowed to vary stochastically according to population dynamics, and speciation arises naturally from the accumulation of point mutations is developed and corroborate the hypothesis that biodiversity dynamics are out of equilibrium.

TL;DR: This study estimates the transmission fitness advantage and the effective reproductive number of B.1.1-CoV-2 variant of Concern in Switzerland and quantifies the variant’s transmission Fitness advantage on a national and a regional scale.