Assessing the quality of molecular divergence time estimates by fossil calibrations and fossil-based model selection.

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

• Publication date

  2004-10-29

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1098/RSTB.2004.1523PMID 15519966PMCID PMC1693436
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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