A hierarchical Bayesian model for calibrating estimates of species divergence times

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 793-809

  Heath, Tracy A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian divergence time estimation; Dirichlet process prior; fossil calibration; hyperprior; MCMC; relaxed clock

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; MARKOV CHAINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; TURTLES;

EID: 84865256173     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys032     Document Type: Article

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