Interordinal mammalian relationships: Evidence for paenungulate monophyly is provided by complete mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 245-258

  Lavergne, Anne ^a   Douzery, Emmanuel ^a   Stichler, Todd ^b   Catzeflis, François M ^a   Springer, Mark S ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROHYDRAX; DENDROHYRAX DORSALIS; DUGONG DUGON; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; EUTHERIA; HYRACOIDEA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; PROCAVIIDAE; SIRENIA; TRICHECHUS MANATUS;

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0030253472     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0074     Document Type: Article

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