Estimating divergence dates from molecular sequences.
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Summary
This work presents a maximum-likelihood approach to estimating divergence times that deals explicitly with the problem of rate variation, and presents tests of the accuracy of the method, which show it to be robust to the effects of some modes of rate variations.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1998-04-01
- Cited by
- 286
- References
- 18
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W1966957912
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:31983591
Keywords
Divergence (linguistics), Biology, Sequence (biology), Variation (astronomy), Calibration
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