Evidence for a convergent slowdown in primate molecular rates and its implications for the timing of early primate evolution

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

Volumn 109, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 6006-6011

  Steiper, Michael E ^a,b,c   Seiffert, Erik R ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CRETACEOUS; ENDOCRANIAL VOLUME; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FOSSIL; HISTORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALEOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE ENDOCRANIAL VOLUME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CHOLESTEROL 7-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84859991128     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119506109     Document Type: Article

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