Time dependency of molecular evolutionary rates? Yes and no

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1324-1328

  Subramanian, Sankar ^a   Lambert, David M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Divergence times; Natural selection; Neutral evolution; Population coalescent times; Rates of evolution; Time dependency

Indexed keywords

PAN; PRIMATES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOMINID; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84858953387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr108     Document Type: Article

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