Dating Tips for Divergence-Time Estimation

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 637-650

  O'Reilly, Joseph E ^a   dos Reis, Mario ^b,c   Donoghue, Philip C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CALIBRATION; FOSSIL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYMENOPTERA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84946490429     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2015.08.001     Document Type: Review

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