Telling the Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record

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The Systematics Association Special Volume Series Series Editor Alan Warren Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, C ...

Telling the Evolutionary Time Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record EDITED BY Philip C.J.Donoghue and M.Paul Smith Boca Raton L ...

First published 2004 by Taylor & Francis 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada ...

Contents Contributors vii Introduction: molecular clocks and the fossil record—towards consilience? PHILIP C.J.DONOGHUEM.PAUL SM ...

PHILIP C.J.DONOGHUEM.PAUL SMITHIVAN J.SANSOM 11 Bones, molecules, and crown-tetrapod origins MARCELLO RUTAMICHAEL I.COATES 229 1 ...

Contributors Francisco J.Ayala, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 926 ...

Christopher R.C.Paul, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK ([email protected]). Jan Pawlows ...

Introduction Molecular clocks and the fossil record— towards consilience? Molecular clocks or the fossil record: which approach ...

statistical confidence. Methods have also been devised to assess congruence between the order of stratigraphic appearance of tax ...

This assumes that because the evolutionary process is time-dependent and because the number of individual clocks (=genes) is vas ...

References Jefferies, R.P.S. (1979) ‘The origin of chordates: a methodological essay’, M.R.Horse (ed.) The Origin of Major Inver ...

Chapter 1 Molecular clocks: whence and whither? Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles, Rosa Tarrío and Francisco J.Ayala ABSTRACT The neut ...

1965). Natural selection is rather fickle, subject to the vagaries of environmental change and organism interactions, whereas mu ...

of evolution depends on the number of germ-line replications per year, which is several times greater for the short-generation r ...

α-methyl-dopa (Amd; E.C.4.1.1.-), (4) glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (Gpdh; E.C.1.1.1. 8), (5) glucose-6-phosphate dehydroge ...

Figure 1.1 Tree topology for the species used in this study. Labels and numbers on the branches represent taxonomic categories a ...

AMD and DDC are paralogues that arose as a result of a gene duplication, holding structural and functional relationships. They c ...

TPI is a glycolytic enzyme essential for efficient energy production. It catalyses the interconversion of dihydroxyacetone phosp ...