The impact of the rate prior on bayesian estimation of divergence times with multiple loci

Systematic Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 555-565

  Dos Reis, Mario ^a   Zhu, Tianqi ^b   Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOSSIL; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; TIME;

EID: 84902457782     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syu020     Document Type: Article

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