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Interpreting meaning of test results background p-value from BUSTED-PH #19

Open mbarkdull opened 3 years ago

mbarkdull commented 3 years ago

Good afternoon,

I want to check that I'm understanding the results of BUSTED-PH correctly. If I obtain the following set of p-values:

Could I reasonably conclude that selection is acting on my background branches and is not acting on the foreground branches? I'm ultimately hoping to be able to compare genes under positive selection in only foreground species to those under selection in only background species.

Thanks for the assistance! Megan