Accurate branch length estimation in partitioned Bayesian analyses requires accommodation of among-partition rate variation and attention to branch length priors.

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  2006

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  Systematic Biology

• Publication date

  2006-12-01

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  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1080/10635150601087641PMID 17345679
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