Comment on molecular dating of the age of eucalypts
Pauline Y. Ladiges A C and Frank Udovicic BA School of Botany, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia.
B Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra, Vic. 3104, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: p.ladiges@unimelb.edu.au
Australian Systematic Botany 18(3) 291-293 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04049
Submitted: 10 December 2004 Accepted: 4 April 2005 Published: 30 June 2005
Abstract
Comment is provided on a recent paper by Crisp et al. (2004) that includes estimates of the age of divergence events for the eucalypt group. Deriving dates from sequence data has some inherent problems, and for the eucalypts these vary several fold compared with estimates based on other data.
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