About the Authors

Remco Bouckaert

remco@cs.auckland.ac.nz (RB); alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz (AJD)

Affiliation Computational Evolution Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Joseph Heled

Affiliation Computational Evolution Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Denise Kühnert

Affiliations Computational Evolution Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Tim Vaughan

Affiliations Computational Evolution Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Chieh-Hsi Wu

Affiliation Computational Evolution Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Dong Xie

Affiliation Computational Evolution Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Marc A. Suchard

Affiliations Departments of Biomathematics and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Andrew Rambaut

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alexei J. Drummond

remco@cs.auckland.ac.nz (RB); alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz (AJD)

Affiliations Computational Evolution Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: DK TV CHW. Wrote the paper: RB JH DK TV CHW MAS AR AJD. Developed software: RB JH DK TV CHW DX MAS AR AJD.