How can we improve accuracy of macroevolutionary rate estimates?

Systematic Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 321-329

  Stadler, Tanja ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84873587932     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys073     Document Type: Review

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