Molecular phylogeny for marine turtles based on sequences of the ND4-leucine tRNA and control regions of mitochondrial DNA

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 511-521

  Dutton, Peter H ^a   Davis, Scott K ^a   Guerra, Trina ^a   Owens, Dave ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; DERMOCHELYIDAE; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; LEPIDOCHELYS; MYDAS; NATATOR DEPRESSA; TESTUDINES;

CYTOCHROME B; HISTIDINE TRANSFER RNA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; SEA WATER; SERINE TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, TRANSFER, HIS; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; RNA, TRANSFER, SER; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TURTLES;

EID: 0030162289     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0046     Document Type: Article

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