Bayesian Models of Episodic Evolution Support a Late Precambrian Explosive Diversification of the Metazoa

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1947-1954

  Aris Brosou, Stéphane ^a,b   Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes; Divergence dates; Metazoa; Molecular clock

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLADISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEUTEROSTOME; DNA SEQUENCE; EPISODIC EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAZOON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR DATE ESTIMATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTOSTOME; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; INVERTEBRATES; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; MYA;

EID: 0347356457     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg226     Document Type: Article

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