Calibrated Tree Priors for Relaxed Phylogenetics and Divergence Time Estimation
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Calibrated Tree Priors for Relaxed Phylogenetics and Divergence Time Estimation
The use of fossil evidence to calibrate divergence time estimation has a long history. More recently, Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo has become the dominant method of divergence time estimation, and fossil evidence has been reinterpreted as the specification of prior distributions on the divergence times of calibration nodes. These so-called "soft calibrations" have become widely used but th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Systematic Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1076-836X,1063-5157
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr087