The Utility of DNA Sequences of an Intron from the β-Fibrinogen Gene in Phylogenetic Analysis of Woodpeckers (Aves: Picidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-204

  Prychitko, Thomas M ^a   Moore, William S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA; FIBRINOGEN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031255043     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1997.0420     Document Type: Article

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