Parsimony analysis of total evidence from extinct and extant taxa and the cetacean-artiodactyl question (Mammalia, Ungulata)

Cladistics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-330

  O'Leary, Maureen A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CASEIN; CYTOCHROME B; GAMMA FIBRINOGEN; KAPPA CASEIN; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TAXONOMY;

MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY;

ARTIODACTYLA; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; PHOCOENIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 0032801377     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clad.1999.0112     Document Type: Editorial

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