Molecular timing of primate divergences as estimated by two nonprimate calibration points

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 718-727

  Arnason, Ulfur ^a   Gullberg, Anette ^a   Janke, Axel ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calibration points; Cercopithecoidea; Hominoid dogma; Hominoidea; Primate evolution

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CALIBRATION; CERCOPITHECIDAE; EVOLUTION; GENOME; HOMINID; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PAPIO; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; TIME FACTORS;

ARTIODACTYLA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; CETACEA; EQUIDAE; HAMADRYAS; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; RHINOCEROTIDAE;

EID: 0032434102     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006431     Document Type: Article

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