Using multiple relaxed-clock models to estimate evolutionary timescales from DNA sequence data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-70

  Duchêne, Sebastián ^a   Ho, Simon Y W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian model selection; Divergence times; Molecular clock; Relaxed clock

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84899622654     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.010     Document Type: Article

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