Amphioxus Mitochondrial DNA, Chordate Phylogeny, and the Limits of Inference Based on Comparisons of Sequences

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-76

  Naylor, Gavin J P ^a   Brown, Wesley M ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Chordate phylogeny; Homoplasy; Molecular systematics; mtDNA; Phylogenetic inference

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; INVERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032028997     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598261030     Document Type: Article

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