The radiation of characiform fishes and the limits of resolution of mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences

Systematic Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-100

  Ortí, Guillermo ^a,b   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Characiformes; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular phylogenetics; Ostariophysi; Phylogenetic information; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

CHARACIFORMES; OSTARIOPHYSAN; OSTARIOPHYSI; PISCES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FISHES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031084117     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/46.1.75     Document Type: Article

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