Four well-constrained calibration points from the vertebrate fossil record for molecular clock estimates.

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Bioessays

• Publication date

  2005-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/BIES.20286PMID 16163732
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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