Potential for bias and low precision in molecular divergence time estimation of the Canopy of Life: An example from aquatic bird families

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  van Tuinen, Marcel ^a,b   Torres, Christopher R ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Divergence time; Fossil record; Homoplasy; Molecular clock; Recent clade; Shallow clade; Young clade

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE TIME ESTIMATION; FOSSIL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYLOGENETIC TREE ROOT; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; SYNAPOMORPHY; TAXON; WATER BIRD;

AVES;

EID: 84940109164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00203     Document Type: Article

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