Testing the molecular clock using mechanistic models of fossil preservation and molecular evolution

The non-uniformity of fossil preservation

(2016) Steven M. Holland   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Protocol for Diagnosing the Effect of Calibration Priors on Posterior Time Estimates: A Case Study for the Cambrian Explosion of Animal Phyla

(2015) Fabia U. Battistuzzi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Bayesian molecular clock dating of species divergences in the genomics era

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process

(2015) Chi Zhang et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Tree imbalance causes a bias in phylogenetic estimation of evolutionary timescales using heterochronous sequences

(2014) David Duchêne et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Calibration uncertainty in molecular dating analyses: there is no substitute for the prior evaluation of time priors

(2014) R. C. M. Warnock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

The Impact of the Rate Prior on Bayesian Estimation of Divergence Times with Multiple Loci

(2014) Mario Dos Reis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bayesian Inference of Sampled Ancestor Trees for Epidemiology and Fossil Calibration

(2014) Alexandra Gavryushkina et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A practical guide to molecular dating

(2013) Hervé Sauquet   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

A Simple Method for Estimating Informative Node Age Priors for the Fossil Calibration of Molecular Divergence Time Analyses

(2013) Michael D. Nowak et al.   PLoS One

Critiquing blind dating: the dangers of over-confident date estimates in comparative genomics

(2013) Christopher W. Wheat et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Modelling distributions of fossil sampling rates over time, space and taxa: assessment and implications for macroevolutionary studies

(2013) Peter J. Wagner et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

(2012) M. dos Reis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The unbearable uncertainty of Bayesian divergence time estimation

(2012) Mario DOS REIS et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Exploring uncertainty in the calibration of the molecular clock

(2011) R. C. M. Warnock et al.   Biology Letters

Approximate Likelihood Calculation on a Phylogeny for Bayesian Estimation of Divergence Times

(2011) M. d. Reis et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Dating Primate Divergences through an Integrated Analysis of Palaeontological and Molecular Data

(2010) Richard D. Wilkinson et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data

(2009) J. Heled et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

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

The Impact of the Representation of Fossil Calibrations on Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times

(2009) Jun Inoue et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Simple Method for Bracketing Absolute Divergence Times on Molecular Phylogenies Using Multiple Fossil Calibration Points

(2008) Charles R. Marshall   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Taxon Sampling Affects Inferences of Macroevolutionary Processes from Phylogenetic Trees

(2008) Tracy A. Heath et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY