A molecular timescale for vertebrate evolution

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6679, 1998, Pages 917-920

  Kumar, Sudhir ^a   Hedges, S Blair ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TIMESCALE; VERTEBRATE; VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENES; MAMMALS; VERTEBRATES;

DINOSAURIA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; RUMEX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032580152     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/31927     Document Type: Article

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