Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 2939-2950

  Dos Reis, Mario ^a,b   Thawornwattana, Yuttapong ^a   Angelis, Konstantinos ^a   Telford, Maximilian J ^a   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

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84960795707     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.066     Document Type: Article

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