Comparison of different strategies for using fossil calibrations to generate the time prior in Bayesian molecular clock dating
Abstract
Fossil calibrations are the utmost source of information in molecular clock dating. The quality of calibrations has a major impact on divergence time estimates. In general, truncation has a great impact on calibrations. The different strategies for generating the effective prior also had considerable impact. It is important to inspect the joint time prior used by the dating program before any Bayesian dating analysis.
- Publication:
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- Pub Date:
- September 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.07.005
- Bibcode:
- 2017MolPE.114..386B
- Keywords:
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- Bayesian inference;
- Molecular clock dating;
- Divergence times;
- Fossil calibration;
- Time prior