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SUBMITTER: McIntyre SRN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5474080 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McIntyre Sarah R N SRN Lineweaver Charles H CH Groves Colin P CP Chopra Aditya A
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20170601 1856
The break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea around 180 Ma has left its imprint on the global distribution of species and resulted in vicariance-driven speciation. Here, we test the idea that the molecular clock dates, for the divergences of species whose geographical ranges were divided, should agree with the palaeomagnetic dates for the continental separations. Our analysis of recently available phylogenetic divergence dates of 42 pairs of vertebrate taxa, selected for their reduced ability to d ...[more]