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Rectifying long-standing misconceptions about the ρ statistic for molecular dating
When divided by a given mutation rate, the ρ (rho) statistic provides a simple estimator of the age of a clade within a phylogenetic tree by averaging the number of mutations from each sample in the clade to its root. However, a long-standing critique of the use of ρ in genetic dating has been quite...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6380571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30779770 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212311 |