Towards resolving the interordinal relationships of placental mammals

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-5

  Waddell, Peter J ^a,c   Okada, Norihiro ^b   Hasegawa, Masami ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; MAMMALS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0033085002     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/48.1.1     Document Type: Article

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