Dating branches on the tree of life using DNA

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Wray, Gregory A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; REVIEW; TIME;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036151160     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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