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license: GPL-3.0-or-later
title: 'phylowise: Phylogenetic Pairwise Contrasts'
version: 0.0.1
doi: 10.64898/2026.08.13.744736
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.phylowise
abstract: A phylogenetic comparative method for finding associations between biological
  traits and molecular evolutionary rates. The method samples pairs from a phylogeny
  such that each pair has non-overlapping edge paths, and can therefore be treated
  as statistically independent observations. Linear regression is performed on the
  pair contrasts. This approach is similar to phylogenetically independent contrasts
  (PIC) but without reconstructing the traits at internal nodes, and is better suited
  for finding trait-rate associations than phylogenetic generalised least squares
  (PGLS). Refer to Douglas and Bromham (2026) <https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.13.744736>
  for further details.
authors:
- family-names: Douglas
  given-names: Jordan
  email: jordan.douglas@auckland.ac.nz
- family-names: Bromham
  given-names: Lindell
preferred-citation:
  type: generic
  title: Searching for patterns in rate of molecular evolution using phylogenetic
    pairwise contrasts
  authors:
  - family-names: Douglas
    given-names: Jordan
    email: jordan.douglas@auckland.ac.nz
  - family-names: Bromham
    given-names: Lindell
  year: '2026'
  notes: bioRxiv
  doi: 10.64898/2026.08.13.744736
  url: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.13.744736
repository: https://jordandouglas.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/jordandouglas/phylowise
commit: 06b9af4a4b0739a8ec5773a5ec6e4c2bd11516cb
url: https://github.com/jordandouglas/phylowise
date-released: '2026-10-12'
contact:
- family-names: Douglas
  given-names: Jordan
  email: jordan.douglas@auckland.ac.nz