Re: genomes divergences during metazoan evolution

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> FEBS letters Volume 579, Issue 15, Pages 3355-3361 (13 June 2005)
>
> "Consistency of genome-based methods in measuring Metazoan evolution"
> Edited by Gáspár Jékely
> Evgeny M. Zdobnova, Christian von Meringa, Ivica Letunica, Peer Borkab

Please, when you copy & paste a citation from a headline, eliminate the 
superscript letters! Zdobnov, von Mering, Letunic, Bork. Where the names end 
is not entirely obvious from the names themselves.

> Abstract
> [...] Qualitatively, all of these divergence measures are found to 
> correlate with the estimated time since speciation; however, marked 
> deviations are observed in a few lineages.

Interesting that they find this in spite of their horrendous divergence time 
estimates! Mice and men diverged some 100 Ma ago according to fig. 1, while 
rats and mice diverged perhaps 40 Ma ago -- the fossil date is _twelve_ 
million (as in "12 and not 14"). I don't know enough about insects, but 
*Anopheles* and *Drosophila* both belong to Diptera, so the pictured ~ 250 
Ma could be the earliest imaginable date...