Wray Gregory A
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0338, USA.
Genome Biol. 2002;3(1):REVIEWS0001. doi: 10.1186/gb-2001-3-1-reviews0001. Epub 2001 Dec 20.
The use of DNA sequences to estimate the timing of evolutionary events is increasingly popular, although it is fraught with practical difficulties. But the exponential growth of relevant information and improved methods of analysis are providing increasingly reliable sequence-derived dates, and it may become possible to reconcile fossil-derived and molecular estimates of divergence times within the next few years.
利用DNA序列来估计进化事件的时间安排越来越普遍,尽管这充满了实际困难。但是相关信息的指数增长以及分析方法的改进正在提供越来越可靠的基于序列得出的时间,并且在未来几年内有可能使来自化石的和分子的分歧时间估计相协调。