Using novel phylogenetic methods to evaluate mammalian mtdna, including amino acid-invariant sites-logdet plus site stripping, to detect internal conflicts in the data, with special reference to the positions of hedgehog, armadillo, and elephant

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-53

  Waddell, Peter J ^a,c   Cao, Ying ^a   Hauf, Jöerg ^b   Hasegawa, Masami ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b Sci Research and Development GmbH   (Germany)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amino acid composition; Invariant sites; LogDeterminant distances; Mammal phylogeny; Mitochondrial DNA genomes; Proboscidea; Statistical tests; tRNA.

Indexed keywords

ARMADILLO; EDENTATA; ELEPHANT; ERINACEIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ELEPHANT; GENETICS; HEDGEHOG; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; HEDGEHOGS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0033084970     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260427     Document Type: Article

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