The fundamental role of character coding in Bayesian morphological phylogenetics

Phylogenetic trees establish a historical context for the study of organismal form and function. Most phylogenetic trees are estimated using a model of evolution. For molecular data, modeling evolution is often based on biochemical observations about changes between character states. For example, there are four nucleotides, and we can make assumptions about the probability of transitions between them. By contrast, for morphological characters, we may not know a priori how many character states there are per character, as both extant sampling and the fossil record may be highly incomplete, which leads to an observer bias. For a given character, the state space may be larger than what has been observed in the sample of taxa collected by the researcher. In this case, how many evolutionary rates are needed to even describe transitions between morphological character states may not be clear, potentially leading to model misspecification. To explore the impact of this model misspecification, ..., The datasets are simulated under Mk model. 
In this study, we examine the effectiveness of partitioning by state during a Bayesian morphological phylogenetic analysis. 
So, the datasets that are simulated are analysed under partitioning by state and unpartitioned models. , , # Data from: The fundamental role of character coding in Bayesian morphological phylogenetics

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* Dataset Title: \"Data from: The fundamental role of character coding in Bayesian morphological phylogenetics\"

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* Authors: Basanta Khakurel, Courtney Grigsby, Tyler D. Tran, Juned Zariwala, Sebastian Höhna, April M. Wright.

* Date of Issue: 2024-02-07

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> Khakurel, Basanta et al. (Forthcoming 2024). Data for: \"The fundamental role of character coding in Bayesian morphological phylogenetics\",Dataset. Drya...