When you were asked the question “What can phylogenetics and molecular dating do nowadays”, which top 3 papers would you cite? Which studies impressed you most regarding number of taxa included, number and quality of calibration points/available fossil data base, quality of methods used for phylogenetic inference, number/length of genes (genomes) included, methods for molecular dating used and so on….What is your personal gold standard today? Or in other words, which studies would you present in a class as today’s state of the art?
I would very much appreciate your suggestions.
Best
Lars
Dr. Lars Opgenoorth
Department of Ecology
University of Marburg
Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8
35043 Marburg
Phone: *49 (0) 6421 28-22080
Fax: *49 (0) 6421 28 23387
Lars.Opgenoorth@uni-marburg.de