The Influence of Taxon Sampling and Tree Shape on Molecular Dating: An Empirical Example from Mammalian Mitochondrial Genomes

Over the last decade, molecular dating methods have been among the most studied subjects in statistical phylogenetics. Although the evolutionary modelling of substitution rates and the handling of calibration information are the primary focus of species divergence time research, parameters that infl...

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Main Authors: André E.R. Soares, Carlos G. Schrago
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:Bioinformatics and Biology Insights
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/BBI.S9677