A stochastic rate-calibrated method for time-scaling phylogenies of fossil taxa

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 724-733

  Bapst, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Comparative methods; Diversification; Extinct lineages; Fossil time trees; Incomplete sampling; Palaeontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881571982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12081     Document Type: Article

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