Bayesian molecular clock dating of species divergences in the genomics era

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 71-80

  Dos Reis, Mario ^a,b   Donoghue, Philip C J ^c   Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOSSIL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME FACTOR;

BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84955379711     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2015.8     Document Type: Review

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