Constraining fossil calibrations for molecular clocks

BioEssays

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 770-771

  Hedges, S Blair ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^a,b   Van Tuinen, Marcel ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; LETTER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747501043     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20437     Document Type: Letter

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