Bayesian dating of shallow phylogenies with a relaxed clock

Systematic Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-131

  Brown, Richard P ^a   Yang, Ziheng ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agamidae; Bayesian phylogenetics; Caprinae; Phylogeny; Posterior; Prior; Relaxed clock

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVIDS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; LIZARD; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIZARDS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; RUMINANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

AGAMIDAE; BOVIDAE; CAPRINAE; CHALCIDES; LAUDAKIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77649255616     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp082     Document Type: Article

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