Improved Calibration of the Human Mitochondrial Clock Using Ancient Genomes

Analyses of evolutionary dynamics in viruses are hindered by a time-dependent bias in rate estimates

(2014) S. Duchene et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Beyond fossil calibrations: realities of molecular clock practices in evolutionary biology

(2014) Christy A. Hipsley et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

(2013) Qiaomei Fu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

(2013) Q. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans

(2013) Paul Brotherton et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenetic Estimation of Timescales Using Ancient DNA: The Effects of Temporal Sampling Scheme and Uncertainty in Sample Ages

(2012) M. Molak et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Accurate Model Selection of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics

(2012) Guy Baele et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Improving the Accuracy of Demographic and Molecular Clock Model Comparison While Accommodating Phylogenetic Uncertainty

(2012) Guy Baele et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution

(2012) Aylwyn Scally et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Temporal Patterns of Nucleotide Misincorporations and DNA Fragmentation in Ancient DNA

(2012) Susanna Sawyer et al.   PLoS One

Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6

(2011) Luísa Pereira et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Expansion Dating: Calibrating Molecular Clocks in Marine Species from Expansions onto the Sunda Shelf Following the Last Glacial Maximum

(2011) E. D. Crandall et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa

(2011) P. Soares et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Time-dependent rates of molecular evolution

(2011) SIMON Y. W. HO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A single southern exit of modern humans from Africa: Before or after Toba?

(2011) Stephen Oppenheimer   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Testing the Impact of Calibration on Molecular Divergence Times Using a Fossil-Rich Group: The Case of Nothofagus (Fagales)

(2011) Hervé Sauquet et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bayesian Estimation of Substitution Rates from Ancient DNA Sequences with Low Information Content

(2011) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Complete mtDNA Genome of an Early Modern Human from Kostenki, Russia

(2010) Johannes Krause et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Using genetic evidence to evaluate four palaeoanthropological hypotheses for the timing of Neanderthal and modern human origins

(2010) Phillip Endicott et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Using Time-Structured Data to Estimate Evolutionary Rates of Double-Stranded DNA Viruses

(2010) C. Firth et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia

(2010) Johannes Krause et al.   NATURE

Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock

(2009) Pedro Soares et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The worm in the fruit of the mitochondrial DNA tree

(2009) F Balloux   HEREDITY

Quantitative Prediction of Molecular Clock and Ka/Ks at Short Timescales

(2009) G. I. Peterson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Elevated substitution rate estimates from ancient DNA: model violation and bias of Bayesian methods

(2009) MIGUEL NAVASCUÉS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Statistical inferences in phylogeography

(2009) RASMUS NIELSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Human origins: Out of Africa

(2009) I. Tattersall   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate shaped the worldwide distribution of human mitochondrial DNA sequence variation

(2009) F. Balloux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes

(2009) A. W. Briggs et al.   SCIENCE

Time Dependency of Molecular Rates in Ancient DNA Data Sets, A Sampling Artifact?

(2009) Regis Debruyne et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

(2009) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution

(2009) Phillip Endicott et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Crucial Role of Calibration in Molecular Date Estimates for the Peopling of the Americas

(2008) Simon Y.W. Ho et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A Bayesian Evaluation of Human Mitochondrial Substitution Rates

(2008) Phillip Endicott et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Determined by High-Throughput Sequencing

(2008) Richard E. Green et al.   CELL

Genetic evidence and the modern human origins debate

(2008) J H Relethford   HEREDITY

Characterizing the Time Dependency of Human Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Rate Estimates

(2008) B. M. Henn et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Accommodating the Effect of Ancient DNA Damage on Inferences of Demographic Histories

(2008) A. Rambaut et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Effect of Inappropriate Calibration: Three Case Studies in Molecular Ecology

(2008) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   PLoS One

Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes

(2008) M. T. P. Gilbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mutation and Evolutionary Rates in Adélie Penguins from the Antarctic

(2008) Craig D. Millar et al.   PLoS Genetics

mtDNA Variation Predicts Population Size in Humans and Reveals a Major Southern Asian Chapter in Human Prehistory

(2007) Q. D. Atkinson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION