Twenty-five well-justified fossil calibrations for primate divergences

D de Vries, R Beck - Palaeontologia Electronica, 2023 - salford-repository.worktribe.com
Phylogenies with estimates of divergence times are essential for investigating many
evolutionary questions. In principle,“tip-dating” is arguably the most appropriate approach …

Total evidence tip-dating phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and 27 well-justified fossil calibrations for primate divergences

D de Vries, RMD Beck - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Phylogenies with estimates of divergence times are essential for investigating many
evolutionary questions. In principle,“tip-dating” is arguably the most appropriate approach …

Using phylogenomic data to explore the effects of relaxed clocks and calibration strategies on divergence time estimation: primates as a test case

MD Reis, GF Gunnell, J Barba-Montoya… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Primates have long been a test case for the development of phylogenetic methods for
divergence time estimation. Despite a large number of studies, however, the timing of …

The impact of fossil stratigraphic ranges on tip‐calibration, and the accuracy and precision of divergence time estimates

HP Püschel, JE O'Reilly, D Pisani… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular clock provides the only viable means of establishing realistic evolutionary
timescales but it remains unclear how best to calibrate divergence time analyses …

Dating tips for divergence-time estimation

JE O'Reilly, M Dos Reis, PCJ Donoghue - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
The molecular clock is the only viable means of establishing an accurate timescale for Life
on Earth, but it remains reliant on a capricious fossil record for calibration.'Tip …

Tips and nodes are complementary not competing approaches to the calibration of molecular clocks

JE O'Reilly, PCJ Donoghue - Biology Letters, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Molecular clock methodology provides the best means of establishing evolutionary
timescales, the accuracy and precision of which remain reliant on calibration, traditionally …

Calibrating and constraining molecular clocks

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher - The timetree of life, 2009 - books.google.com
In dating phylogenetic trees, it is important to work to the strengths of paleontology and
molecular phylogeny estimation. Minimum constraints on calibrations (ie, oldest fossils in a …

Beyond fossil calibrations: realities of molecular clock practices in evolutionary biology

CA Hipsley, J Müller - Frontiers in genetics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Molecular-based divergence dating methods, or molecular clocks, are the primary
neontological tool for estimating the temporal origins of clades. While the appropriate use of …

Primate molecular divergence dates

ME Steiper, NM Young - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2006 - Elsevier
With genomic data, alignments can be assembled that greatly increase the number of
informative sites for analysis of molecular divergence dates. Here, we present an estimate of …

Rocks and clocks revised: new promises and challenges in dating the primate tree of life

L Pozzi, A Penna - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, multiple technological and methodological advances have increased our
ability to estimate phylogenies, leading to more accurate dating of the primate tree of life …