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Molecular Systematics & Evolution of Microorganisms

Molecular Clock

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Table of Contents
  1. Is there a Molecular Clock?
  2. The Molecular Clock for alpha-globin
  3. There is no universal molecular clock
  4. Rates of amino acid replacement in different proteins
  5. Are there local molecular clocks?
  6. Relative rate test (Wilson & Sarich, 1973)
  7. Some potential problems with clocks:
  8. Using fossils to date splitting events
  9. Quartets are formed from two pairs of sequences, each pair having independent fossil dating
  10. Date estimates for Echinoderm - Vertebrate split
Author: Martin Embley 

Email: tme@nhm.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/zoology/home/embley.htm