The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 29, 2014, Pages

  Heath, Tracy A ^a,b   Huelsenbeck, John P ^a,c   Stadler, Tanja ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian divergence time estimation; MCMC; Phylogenetics; Relaxed clock; Time tree

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BIRTH; CALIBRATION; DEATH; EVOLUTION; EXTANT SPECIES; FOSSIL; GENUS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; TURNOVER TIME; URSUS;

BAYESIAN DIVERGENCE TIME ESTIMATION; MCMC; PHYLOGENETICS; RELAXED CLOCK; TIME TREE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; URSIDAE;

EID: 84904626200     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319091111     Document Type: Article

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