Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1742, 2012, Pages 3491-3500

  dos Reis, Mario ^a   Inoue, Jun ^a,b   Hasegawa, Masami ^c   Asher, Robert J ^d   Donoghue, Philip C J ^e   Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Divergence time; Fossil; Mammal

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; GENOMICS; MAMMAL; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRECISION; TIMESCALE;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PRIMATES; XENARTHRA;

EID: 84864346710     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0683     Document Type: Article

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