A review of the effect of relaxed clock method, long branches, genes, and calibrations in the estimation of angiosperm age

Botanical Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-22

  Magallón, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Calibrations; Fossil record; Land plants; Lineage effects; Model misspecifi cation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897127291     PISSN: 20074298     EISSN: 20074476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17129/botsci.37     Document Type: Article

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