Clock debate: When times are a-changin' - Time dependency of molecular rate estimates: Tempest in a teacup

Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-2

  Bandelt, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NOTE; PHYLOGENY;

DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 37349099016     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6801054     Document Type: Note

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