A practical guide to molecular dating

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 355-367

  Sauquet, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Age constraint; Confidence interval; Fossil calibration; Molecular dating; Relaxed clock; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ACQUISITION; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL;

EID: 84887774902     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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