Divergence time estimation—the calibration of a phylogeny to geological time—is an
integral first step in modeling the tempo of biological evolution (traits and lineages) …

Time-resolved phylogenetic methods use information about the time of sample collection to
estimate the rate of evolution. Originally, the models used to estimate evolutionary rates …

The mesopelagic (midwater) and deep-sea environments together comprise over 90% of the
volume of the world ocean [1] and provide services that are only recently becoming …

The high diversity of Neotropical fishes has been attributed to major South American
palaeogeographic events, such as Andean uplift, rise of the Isthmus of Panama and marine …

Divergence times estimation is an essential component of evolutionary studies. It generally
involves several types of data (molecular, morphological, fossils…) and relies on stochastic …

Una hipótesis filogenética representa un portal para la investigación de una enorme
diversidad de preguntas sobre el proceso evolutivo, y su manifestación en organismos y …

Birds are one of the most speciose (over 10,000 recognized species) and ecological diverse
living vertebrates (Gill 2007). It has been held that birds underwent two large-scale …