α-Crystallin Sequences Support a Galliform/Anseriform Clade

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 185-188

  Caspers, Gert Jan ^a   Uit De Weerd, Dennis ^a,b   Wattel, Jan ^b   De Jong, Wilfried W ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DUCK; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHICKENS; CRYSTALLINS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA; DUCKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031114555     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0384     Document Type: Article

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