Publication Date:
2015-08-01
Description:
Misof et al. (Reports, 7 November 2014, p. 763) used a genome-scale data set to estimate the relationships among insect orders and the time scale of their evolution. Here, we reanalyze their data and show that their method has led to systematic underestimation of the evolutionary time scale. We find that key insect groups evolved up to 100 million years earlier than inferred in their study.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tong, K Jun -- Duchene, Sebastian -- Ho, Simon Y W -- Lo, Nathan -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Jul 31;349(6247):487. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa5460.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia. ; School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia. nathan.lo@sydney.edu.au.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26228137" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Insect Proteins/*classification
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Insects/*classification
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*Phylogeny
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
