A protocol for diagnosing the effect of calibration priors on posterior time estimates: A case study for the cambrian explosion of animal phyla

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1907-1912

  Battistuzzi, Fabia U ^a   Billing Ross, Paul ^b   Murillo, Oscar ^c   Filipski, Alan ^c   Kumar, Sudhir ^c,d  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

animal divergence times; calibration points; Cambrian explosion; molecular clocks; RelTime

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PHYLUM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CAMBRIAN; CASE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; GEODIA; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PROTEROZOIC; SPECIES DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84936852682     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv075     Document Type: Article

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