Testing the molecular clock: Molecular and paleontological estimates of divergence times in the echinoidea (Echinodermata)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1832-1851

  Smith, Andrew B ^a   Pisani, Davide ^b   Mackenzie Dodds, Jacqueline A ^a   Stockley, Bruce ^a   Webster, Bonnie L ^a   Littlewood, D Timothy J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Echinoids; Molecular clock; Rates of evolution

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BAYES THEOREM; BENTHOS; CALIBRATION; CLADISTICS; ECHINODERM; FOSSIL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TIME; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; MODELS, GENETIC; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEA URCHINS; TIME FACTORS;

ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33748793941     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl039     Document Type: Article

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