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 …

Temporal signal and the phylodynamic threshold of SARS-CoV-2

S Duchene, L Featherstone… - Virus …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 outbreak marks the first time that large amounts of genome
sequence data have been generated and made publicly available in near real time. Early …

BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis

R Bouckaert, TG Vaughan… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Elaboration of Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods has continued at pace in recent
years with major new advances in nearly all aspects of the joint modelling of evolutionary …

[PDF][PDF] Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10

MA Suchard, P Lemey, G Baele, DL Ayres… - Virus …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis by Sampling Trees (BEAST) software package
has become a primary tool for Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic inference from …

Paleomicrobiology: diagnosis and evolution of ancient pathogens

KI Bos, D Kühnert, A Herbig… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The last century has witnessed progress in the study of ancient infectious disease from
purely medical descriptions of past ailments to dynamic interpretations of past population …

Model selection may not be a mandatory step for phylogeny reconstruction

S Abadi, D Azouri, T Pupko, I Mayrose - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Determining the most suitable model for phylogeny reconstruction constitutes a fundamental
step in numerous evolutionary studies. Over the years, various criteria for model selection …

Rapid expansion and visual specialisation of learning and memory centres in the brains of Heliconiini butterflies

A Couto, FJ Young, D Atzeni, S Marty… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the abundance and diversity of neural cell types, and their connectivity,
shape brain composition and provide the substrate for behavioral evolution. Although …

Improving the accuracy of demographic and molecular clock model comparison while accommodating phylogenetic uncertainty

G Baele, P Lemey, T Bedford, A Rambaut… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Recent developments in marginal likelihood estimation for model selection in the field of
Bayesian phylogenetics and molecular evolution have emphasized the poor performance of …

A novel Bayesian method for inferring and interpreting the dynamics of adaptive landscapes from phylogenetic comparative data

JC Uyeda, LJ Harmon - Systematic biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Our understanding of macroevolutionary patterns of adaptive evolution has greatly
increased with the advent of large-scale phylogenetic comparative methods. Widely used …

Bayesian random local clocks, or one rate to rule them all

AJ Drummond, MA Suchard - BMC biology, 2010 - Springer
Background Relaxed molecular clock models allow divergence time dating and" relaxed
phylogenetic" inference, in which a time tree is estimated in the face of unequal rates across …