Additional support for afrotheria and paenungulata, the performance of mitochondrial versus nuclear genes, and the impact of data partitions with heterogeneous base composition

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-75

  Springer, Mark S ^a   Amrine, Heather M ^a   Burk, Angela ^a   Stanhope, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afrotheria; Base composition; Eutheria; Paenungulata; Phylogeny reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANAGALIDA; ARTIODACTYLA; EQUUS CABALLUS; ERINACEIDAE; EUTHERIA; HYRACOIDEA; INSECTIVORA; LAGOMORPHA; MACROSCELIDEA; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SIRENIA; TUBULIDENTATA; UNGULATA;

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S; VALINE TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETICS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENES; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, TRANSFER, VAL;

EID: 0033085041     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260445     Document Type: Article

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