The virtues of gaps: Xenarthran (Edentate) monophyly supported by a unique deletion in α A-Crystallin

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-106

  Van Dijk, Marjon A M ^a   Paradis, Emmanuel ^b   Catzeflis, François ^c   De Jong, Wilfried W ^a,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Edentata; Indels; Molecular phylogeny; Xenarthra

Indexed keywords

ARMADILLO; AVES; CHONDRICHTHYES; CINGULATA; DASYPODIDAE; EDENTATA; EUTHERIA; METATHERIA; MYRMECOPHAGIDAE; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EDENTATA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLINS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE DELETION; XENARTHRA;

EID: 0033085021     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260463     Document Type: Article

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