Methods for Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times Using Correlated Quantitative Characters

This repository contains an explanation of the methods carried out for the analyses detailed in the paper Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times Using Correlated Quantitative Characters.

The steps carried out were the following. To see the details of the tasks for each section, just click the corresponding link:

• Data collection + processing
  • How to collect and process morphological data
  • How to collect and process molecular data
• How to simulate and process quantitative characters under a given phylogeny
• How to choose the model parameters
• Alignment files
• Tree files
• Bayesian model selection analyses
• Bayesian divergence times estimation analyses