Reading the entrails of chickens: Molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 80-86

  Graur, Dan ^a   Martin, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTHROPOD; CALIBRATION; CHICKEN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME;

ARTHROPODA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 1642554676     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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