Phylogenetic relationships of Australian skinks of the Mabuya group (Reptilia: Scincidae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 135-139

  Honda, Masanao ^a   Ota, Hidetoshi ^b   Kobayashi, Mari ^a   Hikida, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033178288     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.74.135     Document Type: Article

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