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Precision of molecular time estimates
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- Blair Hedges, S., & Kumar, S.
- Venue
- Trends in Genetics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-05
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 242-247
- ISSN
- 0168-9525 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2108764069
- Cited by
- 271
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 3.74
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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