Bayesian molecular clock dating of species divergences in the genomics era

M Dos Reis, PCJ Donoghue, Z Yang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Five decades have passed since the proposal of the molecular clock hypothesis, which
states that the rate of evolution at the molecular level is constant through time and among …

Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life

JM Wolfe, AC Daley, DA Legg, GD Edgecombe - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling

WC Wheeler, JA Coddington, LM Crowley… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a phylogenetic analysis of spiders using a dataset of 932 spider species,
representing 115 families (only the family Synaphridae is unrepresented), 700 known …

[图书][B] Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing

NJ Matzke - 2013 - search.proquest.com
Historical biogeography has a diversity of methods for inferring ancestral geographic ranges
on phylogenies, but many of the methods have conflicting assumptions, and there is no …

Comparing adaptive radiations across space, time, and taxa

RG Gillespie, GM Bennett, L De Meester… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive radiation plays a fundamental role in our understanding of the evolutionary
process. However, the concept has provoked strong and differing opinions concerning its …

Total-evidence dating under the fossilized birth–death process

C Zhang, T Stadler, S Klopfstein, TA Heath… - Systematic …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian total-evidence dating involves the simultaneous analysis of morphological data
from the fossil record and morphological and sequence data from recent organisms, and it …

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

NL Garrison, J Rodriguez, I Agnarsson, JA Coddington… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
ABSTRACT Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod
predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over …

Maximum likelihood inference of geographic range evolution by dispersal, local extinction, and cladogenesis

RH Ree, SA Smith - Systematic biology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
In historical biogeography, model-based inference methods for reconstructing the evolution
of geographic ranges on phylogenetic trees are poorly developed relative to the diversity of …

Bayesian total-evidence dating reveals the recent crown radiation of penguins

A Gavryushkina, TA Heath, DT Ksepka… - Systematic …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The total-evidence approach to divergence time dating uses molecular and morphological
data from extant and fossil species to infer phylogenetic relationships, species divergence …

Bayesian inference of sampled ancestor trees for epidemiology and fossil calibration

A Gavryushkina, D Welch, T Stadler… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Phylogenetic analyses which include fossils or molecular sequences that are sampled
through time require models that allow one sample to be a direct ancestor of another …