Integrating fossil preservation biases in the selection of calibrations for molecular divergence time estimation

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 519-527

  Dornburg, Alex ^a   Beaulieu, Jeremy M ^a   Oliver, Jeffrey C ^a   Near, Thomas J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; calibration; Chelonia; molecular clock; prior; relaxed clock; Sppil Rongis effect; Taphonomy; turtle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRESERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; TURTLES;

TESTUDINES;

EID: 79959483593     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr019     Document Type: Article

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