Retrieve taxon age from Ensembl

Question

[erica.fary]

Hi everyone,

I need to retrieve the age of the taxons that you can see when you click on the gene tree on Ensembl (e.g. here: http://www.ensembl.org/Danio_rerio/Gene/Compara_Tree?db=core;g=ENSDARG00000062209;r=17:22087864-22117363) in million of years (e.g. Bilateria 937 MYA). Has anyone an idea where and how I can extract these Ensembl data?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Answer 1

[abascalfederico]

You could use TimeTree. It gives you available estimates of divergence times compiled from the literature.

In addition, I frequently use the PDF tree available in Genomicus.

The tree, which includes times of divergence for Ensembl species, can be found here

I hope this helps,
Federico