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Dating the arthropod tree based on large-scale transcriptome data.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2011
Rehm Peter, Borner Janus, Meusemann Karen, von Reumont Björn M, Simon Sabrina, Hadrys Heike, Misof Bernhard, Burmester Thorsten
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Molecular sequences do not only allow the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships among species, but also provide information on the approximate divergence times. Whereas the fossil record dates the origin of most multicellular animal phyla during the Cambrian explosion less than 540 million years ago(mya), molecular clock calculations usually suggest much older dates. Here we used a large multiple sequence...
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