Alarm bells for the molecular clock? No support for Ho et al.'s model of time-dependent molecular rate estimates

Systematic Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 337-345

  Emerson, Brent C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HOMINID; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34447249787     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150701258795     Document Type: Review

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