Calibrating and constraining molecular clocks

By Michael Benton, P. Donoghue, R. Asher. 2009

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1. W. Joyce
2. Michael Benton
3. James F. Parham
4. P. Donoghue
5. Mario dos Reis
6. M. Friedman
7. T. Lyson
8. Natalie Ban

Citations in the corpus

• A Divergence Dating Analysis of Turtles Using Fossil Calibrations: An Example of Best Practices (2013, background): “…constraints were considered hard minima because, by adopting a conservative approach to fossil selection, it means that there is no equivocation over the phylogenetic interpretation or minimum age (Benton and Donoghue, 2007; Donoghue and Benton, 2007; Benton et al., 2009; Parham et al., 2012).”
• Molecular phylogeny of Central and South American slider turtles: implications for biogeography and systematics (Testudines: Emydidae: Trachemys) (2012, background): “As fossils are thought to represent minimum ages, fossil calibrations are often provided with an additional soft maximum constraint (Benton et al. 2009).”
• Developmental Patterns in Mesozoic Evolution of Mammal Ears (2012, background): “Their common ancestor is at least 170 million years old (Benton et al. 2009, Bininda-Emonds et al. 2007, Luo 2007a).”
• Cyanobacterial evolution during the Precambrian (2016, background): “Increased quantity and quality of calibration dates will be an essential step to create future trees of life (Benton et al. 2009).”
• Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, background): “The paper has evolved from earlier efforts (Benton and Donoghue, 2007; Donoghue and Benton, 2007; Benton et al., 2009) and has been augmented by the addition of relevant nodes and authors.”
• Approximate likelihood calculation on a phylogeny for Bayesian estimation of divergence times. (2011, methodology): “We use 24 minimum and 14 maximum constraints based on the fossil record (Benton et al. 2009).”
• Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations (2011, background): “…addition to the changing position of a taxon given different morphological analyses (see 2 above), any discrepancy between topologies of morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses is a potential pitfall that has been underemphasized (Benton et al. 2009; Lyson et al. 2010; Wiens et al. 2010).”