The influence of taxon sampling and tree shape on molecular dating: An empirical example from mammalian mitochondrial genomes

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 129-143

  Soares, André E R ^a   Schrago, Carlos G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Divergence time; Mammal time scale; Relaxed molecular clock

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TAXONOMY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863938880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11779322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BBI.S9677     Document Type: Article

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