The time scales of pathogen evolution are of major concern in the context of public and veterinary health, epidemiology and evolutionary biology. Dating the emergence of a pathogen often relies on est
a95% lower, mean, and 95% upper values of the highest posterior density (HPD) interval that contains 95% of the marginal posterior distribution.bMarginal likelihoods, in loge units, were calculated vi
The corresponding months of the tree root and A(H3N2) Italian clades. atMRCA: Time of the most Recent Common Ancestor—month before present (March 2012). bLower 95% Highest Posterior Density. cUpper 95
