Ancient hyaenas highlight the old problem of estimating evolutionary rates

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 499-501

  Shapiro, Beth ^a   Ho, Simon Y W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ancient DNA; calibration; substitution rate

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA; ANIMAL; CALIBRATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYENA; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SUBSTITUTION RATE;

ANCIENT DNA; CALIBRATION; SUBSTITUTION RATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HYAENIDAE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84892953320     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12621     Document Type: Review

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