Interordinal relationships of birds and other reptiles based on whole mitochondrial genomes

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 138-152

  Mindell, David P ^a   Sorenson, Michael D ^b   Dimcheff, Derek E ^a   Hasegawa, Masami ^c   Ast, Jennifer C ^a   Yuri, Tamaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniote phylogeny; Bird phylogeny; Mitochondrial genomes; Passeriformes; Ratites; Turtle phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANIMALIA; ANSER; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; CHARADRIIFORMES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PALAEOGNATHAE; PASSERIFORMES; REPTILIA; RHEA; STRUTHIONIFORMES; TESTUDINES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SONGBIRD; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; SONGBIRDS; TURTLES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033084950     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260490     Document Type: Article

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