A multilocus timescale for the origin of extant amphibians

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 554-561

  San Mauro, Diego ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Anura; Caudata; Divergence time; Gymnophiona; Lissamphibia; Molecular dating; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHIA; CAECILIA; CAUDATA; GYMNOPHIONA; LEPOSPONDYLI; MYA; SALAMANDROIDEA; TEMNOSPONDYLI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953135165     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.019     Document Type: Article

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