Assessing the cretaceous superordinal divergence times within birds and placental mammals by using whole mitochondrial protein sequences and an extended statistical framework

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-137

  Waddell, Peter J ^a,c   Cao, Ying ^a   Hasegawa, Masami ^a   Mindell, David P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bird phylogeny; Mammal order phylogeny; Mitochondrial genomes; Molecular divergence times; Sequencing errors

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANSERIFORMES; ARMADILLO; AVES; CETACEA; DASYPODIDAE; EDENTATA; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RHEA; STRUTHIO CAMELUS; VERTEBRATA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033085003     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260481     Document Type: Article

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