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Molecular Clock Dating using MrBayes

Populations and Evolution 2017-12-01 v2

Abstract

This paper provides an overview and a tutorial of molecular clock dating using MrBayes, which is a software for Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Two modern approaches, total-evidence dating and node dating, are demonstrated using a dataset of Hymenoptera with molecular sequences and morphological characters. The similarity and difference of the two methods are compared and discussed. Besides, a non-clock analysis is performed on the same dataset to compare with the molecular clock dating analyses.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.05707,
  title  = {Molecular Clock Dating using MrBayes},
  author = {Chi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05707},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

19 pages, 5 figures

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