Molecular and Paleontological Evidence for a Post-Cretaceous Origin of Rodents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Shaoyuan ^a   Wu, Wenyu ^b   Zhang, Fuchun ^c   Ye, Jie ^b   Ni, Xijun ^b   Sun, Jimin ^d   Edwards, Scott V ^a   Meng, Jin ^e   Organ, Chris L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; LIVER; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOUSE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PALEOGENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RAT; RODENT; TAXON;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA;

CARDIOCRANIINAE; DIPODINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 84867189056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046445     Document Type: Article

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