Four well-constrained calibration points from the vertebrate fossil record for molecular clock estimates

BioEssays

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1069-1075

  Müller, Johannes ^a   Reisz, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLIGATOR; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BIRD; CALIBRATION; EVOLUTION; FISH; FOSSIL; LIZARD; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ALLIGATOR; AVES; CAIMAN; MAMMALIA; SQUAMATA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 27744565287     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20286     Document Type: Review

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