About the Authors

Jing Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jingauckland2017@gmail.com (JY); bingxu@tsinghua.edu.cn (BX); alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz (AJD)

Affiliations College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Centre for Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Nicola F. Müller

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland

Remco Bouckaert

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Centre for Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Bing Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

jingauckland2017@gmail.com (JY); bingxu@tsinghua.edu.cn (BX); alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz (AJD)

Affiliations College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Alexei J. Drummond

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jingauckland2017@gmail.com (JY); bingxu@tsinghua.edu.cn (BX); alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz (AJD)

Affiliations School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Centre for Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.