Basal Divergences in Birds and the Phylogenetic Utility of the Nuclear RAG-1 Gene

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-123

  Groth, Jeff G ^a   Barrowclough, George F ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ALLIGATOR; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EXON; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ALLELES; ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BIRDS; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES, RAG-1; HETEROZYGOTE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033159606     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1998.0603     Document Type: Article

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