The 'Phoca standard': An external molecular reference for calibrating recent evolutionary divergences

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-45

  Arnason, Ulfur ^a   Xu, Xiufeng ^a   Gullberg, Anette ^a   Graur, Dan ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gorilla; Hominids; Homo; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular dating; Orangutan; Pan; Phoca standard

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMINID; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

EID: 0029816709     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02352298     Document Type: Article

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