PyRate: A new program to estimate speciation and extinction rates from incomplete fossil data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1126-1131

  Silvestro, Daniele ^a   Salamin, Nicolas ^b,c   Schnitzler, Jan ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian; BDMCMC; Birth death process; Diversification rates; Diversity dynamics; Macroevolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931561981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12263     Document Type: Article

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