Dating branches on the Tree of Life using DNA
Open Access
- 20 December 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
The use of DNA sequences to estimate the timing of evolutionary events is increasingly popular, although it is fraught with practical difficulties. But the exponential growth of relevant information and improved methods of analysis are providing increasingly reliable sequence-derived dates, and it may become possible to reconcile fossil-derived and molecular estimates of divergence times within the next few years.Keywords
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