A comparison of ancestral state reconstruction methods for quantitative characters

摘要

Choosing an ancestral state reconstruction method among the alternatives available for quantitative characters may be puzzling. We present here a comparison of seven of them, namely the maximum likelihood, restricted maximum likelihood, generalized least squares under Brownian, Brownian-with-trend and Orn-stein-Uhlenbeck models, phylogenetic independent contrasts and squared parsimony methods.