Molecular and morphological clocks for estimating evolutionary divergence times
Abstract Background Matrices of morphological characters are frequently used for dating species divergence times in systematics. In some studies, morphological and molecular character data from living taxa are combined, whereas others use morphological characters from extinct taxa as well. We invest...
Main Authors: | Jose Barba-Montoya, Qiqing Tao, Sudhir Kumar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-05-01
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Series: | BMC Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01798-6 |
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