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SUBMITTER: Avise JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1689361 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Avise J C JC Walker D D Johns G C GC
Proceedings. Biological sciences 19980901 1407
An approach applied previously to avian biotas is extended in this paper to other vertebrate classes to evaluate Pleistocene phylogeographic effects and to estimate temporal spans of the speciation process (speciation durations) from mitochondrial (mt) DNA data on extant taxa. Provisional molecular clocks are used to date population separations and to bracket estimates of speciation durations between minimum and maximum values inferred from genetic distances between, respectively, extant pairs o ...[more]