A Simple Method for Estimating Informative Node Age Priors for the Fossil Calibration of Molecular Divergence Time Analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Nowak, Michael D ^a   Smith, Andrew B ^b   Simpson, Carl ^c   Zwickl, Derrick J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DETERMINATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CLADISTICS; FOSSIL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR DIVERGENCE TIME ANALYSIS; PRESERVATION; PROBABILITY; SEA URCHIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRATIGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ECHINOIDA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEA URCHINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84878758292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066245     Document Type: Article

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