Extracting time from phylogenies: Positive interplay between fossil and genetic data

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 444-455

  Conroy, Chris J ^a   Van Tuinen, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration error; Divergence time; Maximum likelihood; Molecular clock; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037565011     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2003)084<0444:ETFPPI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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