Research

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Publications

Assembling the tree of life through integrating chronology and phylogeny.
Barba-Montoya J, Craig JM, Kumar S. (To be submitted to Bioinformatics).

Completing a molecular timetree of apes and monkeys.
Craig JM, Bamba GL, Barba-Montoya J, Hedges SB, Kumar S. 2023. Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 3:1284744. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2023.1284744.

Molecular timetrees using relaxed clocks and uncertain phylogenies.
Barba-Montoya J, Sharma S, Kumar S. 2023. Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 3:1225807. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2023.1225807.

Assessing rapid relaxed-clock methods for phylogenomic dating.
Barba-Montoya J, Tao Q, Kumar S. 2021. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(11). DOI: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab251.

Data-driven speciation tree prior for better species divergence times in calibration-poor molecular phylogenies.
Tao Q, Barba-Montoya J, Kumar S. 2021. Bioinformatics, 37(S1): i102–i110 DOI: doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab307.

Molecular and morphological clocks for estimating evolutionary divergence times.
Barba-Montoya J, Tao Q, Kumar S. 2021. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21(83). DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01798-6.

Molecular dating for phylogenies containing a mix of populations and species by using Bayesian and RelTime approaches.
Mello B. Tao Q, Barba-Montoya J, Kumar S. 2021. Molecular Ecology Resources, 21: 122–136. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13249.

Using a GTR+Γ substitution model for dating sequence divergence when stationarity and time-reversibility assumptions are violated.
Barba-Montoya J, Tao Q, Kumar S. 2020. Bioinformatics, 36(S2): i884–i894. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa820.

Relative efficiencies of simple and complex substitution models in estimating divergence times in phylogenomics.
Tao Q, Barba-Montoya J, Huuki LA, Durnan MK, Kumar S. 2020. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(6): 1819–1831. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa049.

Constraining uncertainty in the timescale of angiosperm evolution and the veracity of a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution.
Barba-Montoya J, dos Reis M, Schneider H, Donoghue PCJ, Yang Z. 2018. New Phytologist, 218: 819–834. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/nph.15011.

Using phylogenomic data to explore the effects of relaxed clocks and calibration strategies on divergence time estimation: Primates as a test case.
dos Reis M, Gunnell GF, Barba-Montoya J, Wilkins A, Yang Z, Yoder AD. 2018. Systematic Biology, 67(4): 594–615. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy001.

Comparison of different strategies for using fossil calibrations to generate the time prior in Bayesian molecular clock dating.
Barba-Montoya J, dos Reis M, Yang Z. 2017. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 114: 386–400. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.07.005.

¿Por qué tantos cactos columnares? El papel de los murciélagos nectarívoros en su diversificación.
Barba-Montoya J, Magallón S. 2012. Oikos=, 6: 17-19. biodiversitylibrary.org/item/201871#page/17.

Dissertations

Ph.D. Thesis (University College London, UK), 2017: Bayesian molecular clock dating and the divergence times of angiosperms and primates. Supervised by Professor Ziheng Yang. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1565539/.

M.Sc. Thesis (National Autonomous University of Mexico), 2012: Diversification of Pachycereeae (Cactaceae) due to pollination syndromes. Supervised by Professor Susana Magallón. ru.dgb.unam.mx/handle/20.500.14330/TES01000678067/.

B.Sc. Thesis (National Autonomous University of Mexico), 2009: Origin and evolution of tribe Pachycereeae (Cactaceae). Supervised by Professor Susana Magallón. ru.dgb.unam.mx/handle/20.500.14330/TES01000645528/.