Character congruence and phylogenetic signal in molecular and morphological data sets: A case study in the living Iguanas (squamata, Iguanidae)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1087-1105

  Sites Jr , Jack W ^a   Davis, Scott K ^b   Guerra, Trina ^b   Iverson, John B ^c   Snell, Howard L ^d  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EARLHAM COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

character congruence; Iguanidae; mitochondrial DNA sequence; morphology; phylogenetic inference; taxonomic congruence

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE TRANSFER RNA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SERINE TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; IGUANIA; IGUANIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0029910524     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025671     Document Type: Article

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