Branch-length estimation bias misleads molecular dating for a vertebrate mitochondrial phylogeny

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Authors

Phillips, Matthew

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

Despite recent methodological advances in inferring the time-scale of biological evolution from molecular data, the fundamental question of whether our substitution models are sufficiently well specified to accurately estimate branch-lengths has received

Keywords

Keywords: amino acid substitution; article; fossil; mitochondrial genetics; molecular clock; molecular phylogeny; nonhuman; nucleotide sequence; paleontology; phylogenetic tree; priority journal; unindexed sequence; Animals; DNA, Mitochondrial; Evolution, Molecular Fossil calibration; Maximum likelihood; Mitochondrion; Model misspecification; RY-coding

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/58306

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Gene

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.gene.2008.08.017

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2037-12-31

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