The complete mitochondrial genome of Alligator mississippiensis and the separation between recent archosauria (birds and crocodiles)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1266-1272

  Janke, Axel ^a   Arnason, Ulfur ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alligator; Archosauria; Evolutionary divergences; Haemothermia; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLIGATOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ORDER; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ARCHOSAURIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030778833     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025736     Document Type: Article

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