Pathways of lysozyme evolution inferred from the sequences of cytochrome b in birds

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

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Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach

Joseph Felsenstein · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1981 · 14.9K citations

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Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA

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Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers.

Thomas D. Kocher, W. Kelley Thomas, Axel Meyer et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1989 · 5K citations · Full text

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Evaluation of the maximum likelihood estimate of the evolutionary tree topologies from DNA sequence data, and the branching order in hominoidea

Hirohisa Kishino, Masami Hasegawa · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1989 · 3.4K citations

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