Revisiting the insect mitochondrial molecular clock: The mid-aegean trench calibration

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1659-1672

  Papadopoulou, Anna ^a,b   Anastasiou, Ioannis ^c   Vogler, Alfried P ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian relaxed clock; Insects; Mid Aegean trench; Mitochondrial DNA rates; Molecular clock calibration; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE 1; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 28S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLE; CALIBRATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; ZOOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; INSECT; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; MYA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; INSECTS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77953775759     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq051     Document Type: Article

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