Using phylogenomic data to explore the effects of relaxed clocks and calibration strategies on divergence time estimation: Primates as a test case
M. dos Reis, G. F. Gunnell, J. Barba-Montoya, A. Wilkins, Z. Yang, A. Yoder
This study evaluates how fossil calibrations and molecular clock models affect primate divergence time estimates, finding that auto-correlated rates models provide better fits and more reliable time estimates.
bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2017Evolutionary Biology