Congruification: Support for time scaling large phylogenetic trees

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 688-691

  Eastman, Jonathan M ^a   Harmon, Luke J ^a   Tank, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergence time; geiger; Phylogenetics; Time scaling; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879775736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12051     Document Type: Article

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