Molecular Evidence for a Clade of Turtles

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 144-148

  Mannen, Hideyuki ^a   Li, Steven S L ^b,c  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Turtles; phylogeny; molecular evolution; lactate dehydrogenase; enolase.

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENOLASE; ISOENZYME; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PRIMER DNA;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TURTLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; ISOENZYMES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033208787     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0640     Document Type: Article

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