Fig. 2: Habitat transition rates and number of transition events estimated for each major eukaryotic lineage. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Fig. 2: Habitat transition rates and number of transition events estimated for each major eukaryotic lineage.

From: Global patterns and rates of habitat transitions across the eukaryotic tree of life

Fig. 2

a, Posterior probability distributions of the global rate of habitat evolution, which indicate the overall speed at which transitions between marine and non-marine habitats have occurred in each clade regardless of direction. Rates were estimated along clade-specific phylogenies (Extended Data Fig. 6) using MCMC in BayesTraits with a normalized transition matrix. b, The posterior probability distribution of transition rates from marine to non-marine habitats (top in orange) and from non-marine to marine habitats (below in blue). c,d, Number of transitions from marine to non-marine habitats (c) and in the reverse direction (d) for each clade as estimated by PASTML using maximum likelihood (Methods). The boxplots in c and d show the median as centre line, box sizes indicate the lower (Q1) and upper (Q3) quartiles, whiskers indicate extreme values within 1.5× the interquartile range and dots beyond the whiskers indicate outliers.

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