Confidence intervals for the divergence time of two clades

Systematic Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-133

  Steel, Mike A ^a   Cooper, Alan C ^b   Penny, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aligned sequences; Clades; Divergence times; Molecular clock; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030310775     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2413610     Document Type: Article

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