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An AFLP clock for absolute dating of shallow-time evolutionary history--too good to be true?
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2009
Ehrich D, Eidesen P B, Alsos I G, Brochmann C
Abstract excerpt
A major drawback of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLP) as genetic makers for phylogeographic studies is their lack of a temporal dimension. In a recent publication in Molecular Ecology, Kropf et al. (2009) proposed a molecular clock for AFLP. In this comment we evaluate the proposed approach both theoretically and empirically. A linear increase with time is a prerequisite to use a genetic distance as...
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