Divergence time estimates

Divergence Time Estimates Showing Estimated Ages of Nodes Supported by 95% or Higher Posterior Probability in the Phylogenetic Analyses... 

Near, T.l. and Sanderson, M.I., Assessing the quality of molecular divergence time estimates by fossil calibrations and fossil-based model selection, Phil. Trans. R. Soc., Lond. B., 359, 1477, 2004. 

The divergence time estimated here for cephalochordates and vertebrates indicates... 

Wang, D.Y.-C., Kumar, S. and Hedges, S.B. (1998) Divergence time estimates for the early history of animal phyla and the origin of plants, animals, and fungi . Proceedings of the... 

Adkins, R. M., E. L. Gelke, D. Rowe, and R. L. Honeycutt. Molecular Phylogeny and Divergence Time Estimates for Major Rodent Groups Evidence for Multiple Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18 (2001) 777-91. 

Peterson, K.J., Lyons, J.B., Nowak, K.S., Takacs, C.M., Wargo, M.J. and McPeek, M.A. (2004) Estimating metazoan divergence times with a molecular clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101, 6536-6541. 

Such comparisons reveal only the relative divergence times— for example, that myoglobin diverged from hemoglobin twice as long ago as the a chain diverged from the ]8 chain. How can we estimate the approximate dates of gene duplications and other evolutionary events Evolutionary... 

Ho SYW, Phillips MJ, Cooper A, Drummond AJ (2005) Time dependency of molecular rate estimates and systemic overestimation of recent divergence times. Mol Biol Evol 22 1561-1568... 

Sanderson, M. J. (2002) Estimating absolute rates of molecular evolution and divergence times A penalized hkehhood approach. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19 101-109. 

Wikstrom, N., Savolainen, V. and Chase, M. W. (2003) Angiosperm divergence times Congruence and incongmence between fossils and sequence divergence estimates. In Telling the Evolutionary Time Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record (ed. P. C. J. Donoghue and M. P. Smith). Taylor Francis, London, pp. 142-165. 

Sanderson, M.J., A nonparametric approach to estimating divergence times in the absence of rate constancy, Mol. Biol. EvoL, 14, 1218, 1997. 

Thorne, J.L. and Kishino, H., Divergence time and evolutionary rate estimation with multilocus data, Syst. Biol, 51, 689, 2002. 

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