| Theoretical foundation of the RelTime method for estimating divergence times from variable evolutionary rates K Tamura, Q Tao, S Kumar Molecular biology and evolution 35 (7), 1770-1782, 2018 | 215 | 2018 |
| An evolutionary portrait of the progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and its dominant offshoots in COVID-19 pandemic S Kumar, Q Tao, S Weaver, M Sanderford, MA Caraballo-Ortiz, S Sharma, ... Molecular Biology and Evolution 38 (8), 3046-3059, 2021 | 81 | 2021 |
| Fast and accurate estimates of divergence times from big data B Mello, Q Tao, K Tamura, S Kumar Molecular biology and evolution 34 (1), 45-50, 2017 | 62 | 2017 |
| A Machine Learning Method for Detecting Autocorrelation of Evolutionary Rates in Large Phylogenies Q Tao, K Tamura, F U. Battistuzzi, S Kumar Molecular biology and evolution 36 (4), 811-824, 2019 | 56 | 2019 |
| Reliable confidence intervals for RelTime estimates of evolutionary divergence times Q Tao, K Tamura, S Kumar Molecular Biology and Evolution 37 (1), 280-290, 2020 | 51 | 2020 |
| Accurate timetrees require accurate calibrations SB Hedges, Q Tao, M Walker, S Kumar Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (41), E9510-E9511, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
| Molecular dating for phylogenies containing a mix of populations and species by using Bayesian and RelTime approaches B Mello, Q Tao, J Barba‐Montoya, S Kumar Molecular Ecology Resources 21 (1), 122-136, 2021 | 29 | 2021 |
| RelTime relaxes the strict molecular clock throughout the phylogeny FU Battistuzzi, Q Tao, L Jones, K Tamura, S Kumar Genome Biology and Evolution 10 (6), 1631-1636, 2018 | 29 | 2018 |
| Efficient methods for dating evolutionary divergences Q Tao, K Tamura, S Kumar The molecular evolutionary clock: theory and practice, 197-219, 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
| A new method for inferring timetrees from temporally sampled molecular sequences S Miura, K Tamura, Q Tao, LA Huuki, SL Kosakovsky Pond, J Priest, ... PLoS Computational Biology 16 (1), e1007046, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| Relative efficiencies of simple and complex substitution models in estimating divergence times in phylogenomics Q Tao, J Barba-Montoya, LA Huuki, MK Durnan, S Kumar Molecular Biology and Evolution 37 (6), 1819-1831, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
| Expressional Analysis of Immunoglobulin D in Cattle (Bos taurus), a Large Domesticated Ungulate B Xu, J Wang, M Zhang, P Wang, Z Wei, Y Sun, Q Tao, L Ren, X Hu, ... Public Library of Science 7 (9), e44719, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| Assessing rapid relaxed-clock methods for phylogenomic dating J Barba-Montoya, Q Tao, S Kumar Genome biology and evolution 13 (11), evab251, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| Data-driven speciation tree prior for better species divergence times in calibration-poor molecular phylogenies Q Tao, J Barba-Montoya, S Kumar Bioinformatics 37 (Supplement_1), i102-i110, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| Using a GTR+ Γ substitution model for dating sequence divergence when stationarity and time-reversibility assumptions are violated J Barba-Montoya, Q Tao, S Kumar Bioinformatics 36 (Supplement_2), i884-i894, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| TopHap: rapid inference of key phylogenetic structures from common haplotypes in large genome collections with limited diversity MA Caraballo-Ortiz, S Miura, M Sanderford, T Dolker, Q Tao, S Weaver, ... Bioinformatics 38 (10), 2719-2726, 2022 | 10 | 2022 |
| Molecular and morphological clocks for estimating evolutionary divergence times J Barba-Montoya, Q Tao, S Kumar BMC Ecology and Evolution 21 (1), 83, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Computational reproducibility of molecular phylogenies S Kumar, Q Tao, AP Lamarca, K Tamura Molecular Biology and Evolution 40 (7), msad165, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| R3F: An R package for evolutionary dates, rates, and priors using the relative rate framework Q Tao, S Sharma, K Tamura, S Kumar arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.05004, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Molecular Dating: Theoretical and Practical Investigations in Phylogenomics Q Tao Temple University, 2019 | | 2019 |
Sudhir KumarDirector, iGEM, Carnell Professor of Biology, Temple UniversityVerified email at temple.edu
