Estimating divergence dates and evaluating dating methods using phylogenomic and mitochondrial data in squamate reptiles

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 974-991

  Mulcahy, Daniel G ^a   Noonan, Brice P ^a   Moss, Travis ^a   Townsend, Ted M ^b   Reeder, Tod W ^b   Sites, Jack W ^a   Wiens, John J ^c  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BEAST; Lizards; Penalized likelihood; Phylogeny; R8s; Snakes

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAKES;

REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84867715558     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.018     Document Type: Article

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