Genomic clocks and evolutionary timescales

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 200-206

  Hedges, S Blair ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTHROPOD; ARTIODACTYLA; CHICKEN; CHIMPANZEE; ERROR; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LIFE; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONKEY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PERISSODACTYLA; PLANT; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; TIME; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; ARTHROPODA; ARTIODACTYLA; EUKARYOTA; GALLUS GALLUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037383240     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00053-2     Document Type: Review

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