Making a BLADJ chronogram

library(datelife)
library(phangorn)
#> Loading required package: ape

When we have no initial branch lengths to perform a phylogenetic dating analysis, we can use programs like BLADJ or MrBayes that can smooth node ages in the absence of any genetic data.

The function use_calibrations_bladj.matchedCalibrations() takes the output of function get_all_calibrations():

make_bold_otol_tree(input = "Canis")