A Simple Method for Bracketing Absolute Divergence Times on Molecular Phylogenies Using Multiple Fossil Calibration Points

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2008-04-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/587523PMID 18462127
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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