Systematic Relationships within the Dasyurid Marsupial Tribe Sminthopsini - A Multigene Approach

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 140-155

  Blacket, Mark J ^a   Krajewski, Carey ^b   Labrinidis, Agatha ^c,d   Cambron, Brian ^b   Cooper, Steven ^d   Westerman, Michael ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

12S rRNA; cytochrome b; dasyurid marsupials; mitochondrial control region; multigene analyses; phylogeny; protamine P1; Sminthopsini

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE P1; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTAMINES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033163183     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1998.0604     Document Type: Article

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