Calibration of galliform molecular clocks using multiple fossils and genetic partitions

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 74-86

  Van Tuinen, Marcel ^a   Dyke, Gareth J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0347093513     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00164-7     Document Type: Article

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