ArticleFrontiers in genetics2019
Selective Sampling of Species and Fossils Influences Age Estimates Under the Fossilized Birth-Death Model.
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Abstract
The fossilized birth-death (FBD) model allows the estimation of species divergence times from molecular and fossil information in a coherent framework of diversification and fossil sampling. Some assumptions of the FBD model, however, are difficult to meet in phylogenetic analyses of highly diverse groups. Here, I use simulations to assess the impact of extreme model violations, including diversified sampling of species and the exclusive use of the oldest fossils per clade, on divergence times estimated with the FBD model. My results demonstrate that selective sampling of fossils can produce dramatically overestimated divergence times when the FBD model is used for inference, due to an interplay of underestimates for the model parameters net diversification rate, turnover, and fossil-sampling proportion. In contrast, divergence times estimated with CladeAge, a method that uses information about the oldest fossils per clade together with estimates of sampling and diversification rates, are accurate under these conditions. Practitioners of Bayesian divergence-time estimation should therefore ensure that the dataset conforms to the expectations of the FBD model, or estimates of sampling and diversification rates should be obtained
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