Summary

rats

Rattus

house mouse

Mus musculus

13.1

Million Years Ago (TTOL)
Mean: 13.10 Mya
Median: 13.10 Mya

Summary

rats

Rattus
Versus

house mouse

Mus musculus
13.1 Million Years Ago (TTOL)

13.1 Mya (median, 48 studies)

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Molecular Time Estimates

*Note: If you would like to suggest your publication for inclusion, and it is not yet in TimeTree (see list of studies), you can send us the reference information for the publication using the contact page.

Time Reference Year
16.0 Swanson et al. 2019
15.4 Smissen et al. 2018
10.5 Laurin et al. 2018
12.7 Rowsey et al. 2018
11.1 Lv et al. 2016
27.6 Pisano et al. 2015
11.2 He et al. 2015
11.8 Kimura et al. 2015
8.8 Alhajeri et al. 2015
10.6 Fabre et al. 2015
25.3 Padhi et al. 2015
14.2 Yin et al. 2014
14.9 Humphreys et al. 2014
14.8 Pozzi et al. 2014
12.4 Ge et al. 2013
10.6 Fabre et al. 2013
12.0 Schenk et al. 2013
13.0 Davies et al. 2013
12.2 Soares et al. 2013
14.0 dos Reis et al. 2012
12.7 Ge et al. 2012
22.2 Nyakatura et al. 2012
13.4 Zhang et al. 2012
31.9 Soria-Carrasco et al. 2012
55.6 Liu et al. 2012
23.8 Crottini et al. 2012
9.5 Wu et al. 2012
11.4 Pagès et al. 2012
21.1 Fabre et al. 2012
13.6 Psouni et al. 2012
12.6 Horn et al. 2011
13.4 Jameson et al. 2011
12.0 Aplin et al. 2011
24.2 Babb et al. 2010
13.3 Nilsson et al. 2010
41.6 Pyron et al. 2010
11.9 Robins et al. 2010
32.5 Alfaro et al. 2009
15.3 Matsui et al. 2009
12.3 Hallström et al. 2008
41.0 Arnason et al. 2008
11.3 Lecompte et al. 2008
9.7 Rowe et al. 2008
11.7 Hallström et al. 2007
13.2 Renaud et al. 2007
43.0 Kullberg et al. 2006
11.9 Chevret et al. 2005
11.9 Michaux et al. 2002

CAUTION: We recommend that the users carefully examine individual study results provided before using summary information.

How It Works

Two species or higher taxa are queried (e.g., cat and dog).

TimeTree looks for these species in the TTOL to find their most recent common ancestor and produces the time estimate available. All studies with published times of divergence for that evolutionary split are shown in a Table format. When one or both of the species are not present in TTOL, the NCBI taxonomy is scanned to find the closest relatives of the species or higher taxa requested by the user. Then, those taxa are used as proxies and the most recent common ancestor identified to generate the final time estimates.

 

Poster

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Downloads

On our Results page, you can download all individual time estimates and study data associated with the query. The iPhone and iPad apps, and all chapters of the Timetree of Life book, can be downloaded by using their respective links. In addition, we will soon make available a facility to download timetrees consisting of multiple species, where users will also be able to input their own species trees. These facilities will be available for a large number of species (>50,000 species) as soon as we complete the processing and synthesis of results from over 2000 studies into this resource. In the meantime, we provide the >50,000-species timetree of life as a download here.


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