Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: A complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia)

Biological Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-175

  Bininda Emonds, Olaf R P ^a   Gittleman, John L ^b   Purvis, Andy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Character congruence; Divergence times; Fossil dates; Macroevolution; Matrix representation; Molecular clock; Parsimony; Supertree; Taxonomic congruence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; PHYLOGENY;

AILURUS FULGENS; CANIDAE; CARNIVORA; FELIDAE; HERPESTIDAE; HYAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUSTELINAE; PANDA; PROCYONIDAE; VIVERRIDAE;

EID: 0032936412     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00184.x     Document Type: Article

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