The Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor Does Not (Usually) Approximate the Date of Divergence

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 8; p. e0128407
• Main Author: Pettengill, James B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 14.08.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Base Sequence; Bioinformatics; Computer applications; Computer simulation; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Divergence; DNA; Empirical analysis; Estimation; Evolution; Genetic Speciation; Genomes; Humans; Nucleotide sequence; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Population; Public health; Salmonella; Salmonella enterica; Simulation; Speciation; Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus infections; Taxa; United States > US

With the advent of more sophisticated models and increase in computational power, an ever-growing amount of information can be extracted from DNA sequence data. In particular, recent advances have allowed researchers to estimate the date of historical events for a group of interest including time to...