Estimating divergence times in large molecular phylogenies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19333-19338

  Tamura, Koichiro ^a   Battistuzzi, Fabia Ursula ^b,c   Billing Ross, Paul ^b   Murillo, Oscar ^b   Filipski, Alan ^b   Kumar, Sudhir ^b,d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Relaxed clocks; Timescales

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DATING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TIME; TIME SCALE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84869752137     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213199109     Document Type: Article

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