About the Authors
- Alexei J Drummond
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexei J Drummond, Andrew Rambaut
¤ Current address: Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Simon Y. W Ho
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Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Matthew J Phillips
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Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Andrew Rambaut
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexei J Drummond, Andrew Rambaut
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: andrew.rambaut@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
AJD and AR conceived the original idea, developed the software, and performed the marsupial and virus data analyses. SYWH developed the simulation software, performed the simulation analysis, developed the use of prior distributions for calibrating node ages, and performed the analyses on the bacteria, yeast, plant, metazoan, and primate datasets. MJP collected and curated the marsupial dataset and provided expert calibration information. AJD, SYWH, MJP, and AR contributed to the writing of the article.