Age at first reproduction explains rate variation in the strepsirrhine molecular clock

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 18165-18170

  Tsantes, C ^a   Steiper, M E ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Evolution; Generation time; Primates; Strepsirhine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; GROUPS BY AGE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; REPRODUCTION; SIGN TEST;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; REPRODUCTION;

HOMINOIDEA; PRIMATES;

EID: 70849133476     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906686106     Document Type: Article

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