Phylogeography of brown bears (Ursus arctos) of Alaska and paraphyly within the Ursidae

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 477-494

  Talbot, Sandra L ^a   Shields, Gerald F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELARCTOS MALAYANUS; URSIDAE; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; PROLINE TRANSFER RNA; THREONINE TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; CARNIVORA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CARNIVORA; CODON; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, TRANSFER, PRO; RNA, TRANSFER, THR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; URSIDAE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030162288     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0044     Document Type: Article

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