Major Radiations in the Evolution of Caviid Rodents: Reconciling Fossils, Ghost Lineages, and Relaxed Molecular Clocks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Pérez, María Encarnación ^a   Pol, Diego ^a  

^a MUSEO PALEONTOLÓGICO EGIDIO FERUGLIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CAVIIDAE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MIOCENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; RADIATION; RODENT;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CYTOCHROMES B; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PREALBUMIN; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RODENTIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

CAVIIDAE; CAVIINAE; CAVIOMORPHA; DOLICHOTINAE; EOCARDIIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 84868090260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048380     Document Type: Article

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