The origin of the Australasian marsupial fauna and the phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic monito del monte and marsupial mole

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 265, Issue 1413, 1998, Pages 2381-2386

  Springer, Mark S ^a   Westerman, Michael ^b   Kavanagh, John R ^a   Burk, Angela ^a   Woodburne, Michael O ^a   Kao, Diana J ^a   Krajewski, Carey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Dromiciops; Marsupial phylogeny; Molecular systematics; mtDNA; Notoryctes

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

MARSUPIAL; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYPOTHESIS; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUSTRALASIA;

DASYUROMORPHIA; DIDELPHIDAE; DIPROTODONTIA; DROMICIOPS; METATHERIA; MICROBIOTHERIA; NOTORYCTEMORPHIA; NOTORYCTES; NOTORYCTES TYPHLOPS; PEDIOMYIDAE; PERAMELIDAE;

EID: 0032559047     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0587     Document Type: Article

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