rss version 1 70 User s Manual December 2004 Michael J Sanderson Section of Evolution and Ecology One Shields Avenue University of California Davis CA 95616 USA email mjsanderson ucdavis edu Table of Contents Introduction What s new in version 1 7 What was new in version 1 5 Installation Some definitions Running the program Data file format Grammar for r8s block and r8s commands Required information in the r8s block Naming nodes clades taxa the mrca
r8s version 1 50 User s Manual August 2002 Michael J Sanderson Section of Evolution and Ecology One Shields Avenue University of California Davis CA 95616 USA email mjsanderson ucdavis edu Introduction This is a program for estimating absolute rates r8s of molecular evolution and divergence times on a phylogenetic tree It implements several methods for estimating these parameters ranging from fairly standard maximum likelihood methods in the context o