The simultaneous diversification of South American Echimyid rodents (Hystricognathi) based on complete cytochrome b sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 403-413

  Lara, Márcia C ^a,b   Patton, James L ^a   Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHIMYIDAE; ECHIMYS; ERETHIZON DORSATUM; HOPLOMYS; HYSTRICIDAE; HYSTRICOGNATHI; LONCHOTHRIX; MAKALATA; MESOMYS; MURIDAE; MUS; NELOMYS; PROECHIMYS; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SCIUROGNATHI; SPINY; TRINOMYS;

CYTOCHROME B; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MURIDAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; RAT; RODENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; RATS; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0030120447     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0035     Document Type: Article

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