Performance of relaxed-clock methods in estimating evolutionary divergence times and their credibility intervals.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on January 21, 2010

Authors

Fabia U Battistuzzi1, Alan Filipski, S Blair Hedges, Sudhir Kumar

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, USA.

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