Integration of bayesian molecular clock methods and fossil-based soft bounds reveals early cenozoic origin of African lacertid lizards

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hipsley, Christy A ^a,b   Himmelmann, Lin ^c   Metzler, Dirk ^d   Müller, Johannes ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOINFORMATICS; CALIBRATION; CENOZOIC; EOCENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

LACERTIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 68149163630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-151     Document Type: Article

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