Evolutionary Age of the Galápagos Iguanas Predates the Age of the Present Galápagos Islands

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 158-172

  Rassmann, Kornelia ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECUADOR; GENETICS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECUADOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; IGUANAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031110216     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0386     Document Type: Article

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