Evolutionary rates, divergence dates, and the performance of mitochondrial genes in Bayesian phylogenetic analysis

Systematic Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 289-300

  Mueller, Rachel Lockridge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergence dates; DNA barcoding; Mitochondrial genomes; Molecular evolution; Phylogenetic performance; Salamander phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; URODELA;

EID: 33744997660     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150500541672     Document Type: Article

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