Fig. 3: The evolutionary history of the sexual system in teleosts.
From: Switches, stability and reversals in the evolutionary history of sexual systems in fish
a Visual summary of maximum likelihood ancestral state reconstruction as a two-character state (gonochorism or hermaphroditism) that best approximates results of our RJ-MCMC Multistate model. The sexual systems of extant species and their ancestors are colour coded for gonochorism (n = 4320; grey) and hermaphroditism (n = 294; magenta). b Density plots from RJ-MCMC Multistate models for the estimated probability of character state at the root of the phylogeny colour coded for gonochorism (mean = 66%; grey) and hermaphroditism (mean: 34%; magenta). c RJ-MCMC multistate posterior distributions of the transition rates from gonochorism to hermaphroditism (magenta) and from hermaphroditism to gonochorism (grey).
