Bayesian phylogenetic estimation of fossil ages

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1699, 2016, Pages

  Drummond, Alexei J ^a,b   Stadler, Tanja ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian phylogenetics; Divergence time dating; Fossil dating; Morphological clock; Morphological evolution; Phylogenetic inference

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATING METHOD; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PROBABILITY;

CANIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CANIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; PENGUIN; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANIDAE; FOSSILS; GEOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPHENISCIDAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84975230911     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0129     Document Type: Article

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