Journal: Molecular Biology and Evolution
Article Title: Molecular clock dating using complex mixture models: applied to ancient symbionts
doi: 10.1093/molbev/msag039
Figure Lengend Snippet: Evaluation of the impacts of calibration and model misspecification on molecular clock dating. Accuracy of divergence time estimation (relative difference) is shown as the y -axis. a and b) The lower and upper time bounds of all calibrations are shifted forward a) and backward b) in time by 20% (f0.2, b0.2) or 50% (f0.5, b0.5) of their true values, respectively. Three calibration schemes are considered: (i) a root-only calibration ( root_only ), (ii) the root plus one fully calibrated internal node ( single_interval ), and (iii) the root plus two fully calibrated internal nodes ( two_intervals ), each with time ranges of the true value ±20% or ±50%. c) Assessment of the accuracy of divergence time estimation under alternative substitution models used in simulation (LG + C60 + G used in most other analyses): LG + G, LG + G + I, LG + R, LG + C20 + G, and LG + C60 + G + I. Boxplots compare the accuracy obtained by the true model (purple) and by LG + C60 + G (blue). Each plot contains 30 dots representing the mean relative difference based on MCMCtree molecular clock dating with the corresponding calibration strategy on 30 simulated datasets. For each simulation, 30 timetrees each containing 20 tips are simulated using a birth-death process with a mean substitution rate 0.25 substitutions/site/Gyr across four different root ages ranging from 1.0 to 4.0 Ga. The plots on the left and right correspond to analyses using the AR and IR clock models, respectively. Calibration strategies are the same as those used in .
Article Snippet: Under complete taxon sampling, the difference in time estimates between the LG + G and LG + C60 + G models became more obvious (scheme complete_taxon_sampling in ).
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