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Molecular clocks provide little information to date methanogenic Archaea

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Fig. 1: A plausible origin of methanogenesis and phylogeny of Archaea.

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We thank L. Eme for constructive comments. Financial support comes from Discovery Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada awarded to A.J.R. and E.S. A.J.R. acknowledges support from the Canada Research Chairs Program.

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    Andrew J. Roger & Edward Susko

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Andrew J. Roger

  3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Edward Susko

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Roger, A.J., Susko, E. Molecular clocks provide little information to date methanogenic Archaea. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 1676–1677 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0687-z

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