Molecules remodel the mammalian tree

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 270-275

  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

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY;

DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DISTANCE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

CETACEA; CHRYSOCHLORIDAE; ELEPHANTIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032125465     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01335-4     Document Type: Review

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