[PDF][PDF] Bayesian total-evidence dating revisits sloth phylogeny and biogeography: a cautionary tale on morphological clock analyses

JV Tejada, PO Antoine, P Münch, G Billet, L Hautier… - 2023 - researchgate.net
Combining morphological and molecular characters through Bayesian total-evidence dating
allows inferring the phylogenetic and timescale framework of both extant and fossil taxa …

Bayesian total-evidence dating revisits sloth phylogeny and biogeography: a cautionary tale on morphological clock analyses

JV Tejada, PO Antoine, P Münch, G Billet… - Systematic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Combining morphological and molecular characters through Bayesian total-evidence dating
allows inferring the phylogenetic and timescale framework of both extant and fossil taxa …

Phylogeny, macroevolutionary trends and historical biogeography of sloths: insights from a Bayesian morphological clock analysis

L Varela, PS Tambusso, HG McDonald… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sloths, like other xenarthrans, are an extremely interesting group of mammals that, after a
long history of evolution and diversification in South America, became established on …

Reassessing the phylogeny and divergence times of sloths (Mammalia: Pilosa: Folivora), exploring alternative morphological partitioning and dating models

DM Casali, A Boscaini, TJ Gaudin… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Folivora) have been extensively studied in the
past few decades using maximum parsimony approaches. Recently, Bayesian phylogenetic …

Multiple morphological clocks and total-evidence tip-dating in mammals

MSY Lee - Biology Letters, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Morphological integration predicts that correlated characters will coevolve; thus, each
distinct suite of correlated characters might be expected to evolve according to a separate …

Bayesian tip-dated phylogenetics: topological effects, stratigraphic fit and the early evolution of mammals

B King, R Beck - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The incorporation of stratigraphic data into phylogenetic analysis has a long history of
debate, but is not currently standard practice for palaeontologists. Bayesian tip-dating (or …

Sphenodontian phylogeny and the impact of model choice in Bayesian morphological clock estimates of divergence times and evolutionary rates

TR Simões, MW Caldwell, SE Pierce - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The vast majority of all life that ever existed on earth is now extinct and several
aspects of their evolutionary history can only be assessed by using morphological data from …

EvoPhylo: An r package for pre‐ and postprocessing of morphological data from relaxed clock Bayesian phylogenetics

TR Simões, N Greifer, J Barido‐Sottani… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Relaxed clock Bayesian evolutionary inference (BEI) enables the co‐estimation of
phylogenetic trees and evolutionary parameters associated with models of character and …

Mismatch of the morphology model is mostly unproblematic in total-evidence dating: insights from an extensive simulation study

S Klopfstein, R Ryer, M Coiro, T Spasojevic - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Calibrating the molecular clock is the most contentious step in every dating analysis, but the
emerging total-evidence dating approach promises increased objectivity. It combines …

Bayesian morphological clock methods resurrect placoderm monophyly and reveal rapid early evolution in jawed vertebrates

B King, T Qiao, MSY Lee, M Zhu, JA Long - Systematic Biology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The phylogeny of early gnathostomes provides an important framework for understanding
one of the most significant evolutionary events, the origin and diversification of jawed …