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SUBMITTER: Matzke NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5014026 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matzke Nicholas J NJ Wright April A
Biology letters 20160801 8
Tip-dating methods are becoming popular alternatives to traditional node calibration approaches for building time-scaled phylogenetic trees, but questions remain about their application to empirical datasets. We compared the performance of the most popular methods against a dated tree of fossil Canidae derived from previously published monographs. Using a canid morphology dataset, we performed tip-dating using BEAST v. 2.1.3 and MrBayes v. 3.2.5. We find that for key nodes (Canis, approx. 3.2 Ma ...[more]