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From: dd@beta.UUCP (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: E. coli & Salmonella => When did they diverge?
Message-ID: <16425@beta.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 03:25:43 GMT
References: <1663@aecom.YU.EDU> <4791@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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Keywords: Eubacterial evolution; phylogeny
Summary: it's been published

In article <4791@sigi.Colorado.EDU>, eddy@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Sean Eddy) writes:
> In article <1663@aecom.YU.EDU> diaz@aecom.YU.EDU (Dizzy Dan) writes:
> >I am trying to find out when E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium were
> >supposed to have diverged from their common ancestor.  Does anyone know
> >the answer or where I can find it?  Thanx.
> 
> Ochman and Wilson who claim to have a paper in preparation that
> details the calculations behind the 120 to 160 million year figure.
> 
> - Sean Eddy

It was in next-to-last Journal of Molecular Evolution, the special issue
on molecular clocks.

dan davison






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