Accounting for calibration uncertainty: Bayesian molecular dating as a “doubly intractable” problem

S Guindon - Systematic Biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This study introduces a new Bayesian technique for molecular dating that explicitly
accommodates for uncertainty in the phylogenetic position of calibrated nodes derived from …

A simulation-based evaluation of tip-dating under the fossilized birth–death process

A Luo, DA Duchêne, C Zhang, CD Zhu… - Systematic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian molecular dating is widely used to study evolutionary timescales. This procedure
usually involves phylogenetic analysis of nucleotide sequence data, with fossil-based …

Impacts of taxon-sampling schemes on Bayesian tip dating under the fossilized birth-death process

A Luo, C Zhang, QS Zhou, SYW Ho… - Systematic Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary timescales can be inferred by molecular-clock analyses of genetic data and
fossil evidence. Bayesian phylogenetic methods such as tip dating provide a powerful …

Bayesian molecular dating: opening up the black box

L Bromham, S Duchêne, X Hua, AM Ritchie… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular dating analyses allow evolutionary timescales to be estimated from genetic data,
offering an unprecedented capacity for investigating the evolutionary past of all species …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of different strategies for using fossil calibrations to generate the time prior in Bayesian molecular clock dating

J Barba-Montoya, M Dos Reis, Z Yang - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fossil calibrations are the utmost source of information for resolving the distances between
molecular sequences into estimates of absolute times and absolute rates in molecular clock …

Data-driven speciation tree prior for better species divergence times in calibration-poor molecular phylogenies

Q Tao, J Barba-Montoya, S Kumar - Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Precise time calibrations needed to estimate ages of species divergence are not
always available due to fossil records' incompleteness. Consequently, clock calibrations …

Impacts of taxon-sampling schemes on Bayesian molecular dating under the unresolved fossilized birth-death process

A Luo, C Zhang, QS Zhou, SYW Ho, CD Zhu - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Evolutionary timescales can be estimated using a combination of genetic data and fossil
evidence based on the molecular clock. Bayesian phylogenetic methods such as tip dating …

Assignment of calibration information to deeper phylogenetic nodes is more effective in obtaining precise and accurate divergence time estimates

B Mello, CG Schrago - Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Divergence time estimation has become an essential tool for understanding
macroevolutionary events. Molecular dating aims to obtain reliable inferences, which, within …

Bayesian phylogenomic dating

S Álvarez-Carretero, M dos Reis - The Molecular Evolutionary Clock …, 2020 - Springer
The development of divergence-time estimation methods has been an active area of
research since the early 1960s, when the molecular clock was first postulated by …

The impact of the representation of fossil calibrations on Bayesian estimation of species divergence times

J Inoue, PCJ Donoghue, Z Yang - Systematic biology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian inference provides a powerful framework for integrating different sources of
information (in particular, molecules and fossils) to derive estimates of species divergence …