1. Bayesian Tip Dating Approach
Chi Zhang
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese
Academy of Sciences
Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy
of Sciences
6. Priors
• P(τ, t | θ) : prior for the timetree
• Fossilized Birth-Death (FBD) process
• λ : speciation (birth) rate
• μ : extinction (death) rate
• ψ : fossil sampling rate
• ρ : extant sampling probability
• condition origin time (t0)
or root age (t1)
(Stadler 2010)
S1 S2
F1
F2
t1
t2
t3
t5
t4
7. Priors
• P(r | θ) : prior for the evolutionary rates
• expected number of changes per character per myr
• Strict (global) clock
• ri’s are equal
• Relaxed clock models
• independent rates – ri’s follow independent
distributions (Drummond et al 2006,
Rannala and Yang 2007, Lepage et al. 2007)
• auto-correlated rates – ri depends on the rate
of its ancestral branch (Kishino et al 2001, Thorne and Kishino 2002)
S1 S2
F1
F2
r4
r5
r3
r1
r2
r6
11. Acknowledgments
• Xing Xu (IVPP)
• Min Wang (IVPP)
• Yilun Yu (IVPP)
• Funding
• National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Chinese Academy of Sciences