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), email us at timetreeoflife@gmail.com with a coded treefile containing divergence times at nodes (extensions of .tre, .nwk, .txt, etc.) and a citation or web link of the article (or PDF).

Publication Year Source Publication Title
2011 Rock-inhabiting fungi originated dur ... Gueidan et al
Time Taxa Source
662.9 author figure 2
 
2008 The Ediacaran emergence of bilateria ... Peterson et al
Time Taxa Source
630.0 figure 1
 
2007 Fossils and phylogenies: integrating ... Cartwright et al
Time Taxa Source
560.0 table 2
 
2006 Divergence time estimates for the ea ... Wang et al
Time Taxa Source
993.0 table 2
 
2005 A comparison of airborne ergosterol, ... Foto et al
Time Taxa Source
579.0 figure 3
 
2005 Evolutionary sequence analysis of co ... Blair et al
Time Taxa Source
949.0 table 2
 
2005 Molecular clocks do not support the ... Blair et al
Time Taxa Source
851.0 table 1
 
2004 Estimating metazoan divergence times ... Peterson et al
Time Taxa Source
573.0 table 1
 
2004 A molecular timescale of eukaryote e ... Hedges et al
Time Taxa Source
976.0 table 1
 
2004 The timing of eukaryotic evolution: ... Douzery et al
Time Taxa Source
695.0 supporting table 5
 
2003 Advanced formulation of base pair ch ... Otsuka et al
Time Taxa Source
900.0 figure 5
 
2002 Effects of models of rate evolution ... Aris-Brosou et al
Time Taxa Source
560.0 figure 4
 
2001 The age and relationships of the maj ... Lynch et al
Time Taxa Source
627.0 p. 322
 
2001 Estimation of divergence times from ... Nei et al
Time Taxa Source
833.0 table 2
 
2000 The glutamine synthetases of rhizobi ... Turner et al
Time Taxa Source
1421.0 table 2
 
2000 Early evolution of the bilateria. ... Hausdorf et al
Time Taxa Source
715.0 table 4
 
1999 Can fast early rates reconcile molec ... Bromham et al
Time Taxa Source
588.0 table 2
 
1998 Early metazoan divergence was about ... Gu et al
Time Taxa Source
830.0 text
 
1998 Origin of the metazoan phyla: molecu ... Ayala et al
Time Taxa Source
736.0 table 3
 
1997 Determining divergence times with a ... Feng et al
Time Taxa Source
850.0 table 3
 
1996 Molecular evidence for deep precambr ... Wray et al
Time Taxa Source
1200.0 table 2
 
1996 Determining divergence times of the ... Doolittle et al
Time Taxa Source
670.0 text
 

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