Phylogenetic informativeness reconciles ray-finned fish molecular divergence times

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dornburg, Alex ^a   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a   Friedman, Matt ^b   Near, Thomas J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actinopterygii; Homoplasy; Molecular clock; Nucleotide Saturation

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; FINFISH; JURASSIC; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ACTINOPTERYGII;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; FISH; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84908370363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0169-0     Document Type: Article

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