Relationships among didelphid marsupials based on sequence variation in the mitochondrial cytochrome B gene

Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-29

  Patton, James L ^a   Dos Reis, Sergio F ^b   Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Didelphidae; Evolutionary rate; Marsupials; mtDNA sequences; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002999210     PISSN: 10647554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01454252     Document Type: Article

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