The Phylogenetic Position of "Acomyinae" (Rodentia, Mammalia) as Sister Group of a Murinae + Gerbillinae Clade: Evidence from the Nuclear Ribonuclease Gene

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 181-192

  Dubois, Jean Yves F ^a   Catzeflis, François M ^b   Beintema, Jaap J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PANCREATIC RIBONUCLEASE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GERBIL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MURIDAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; GERBILLINAE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033209639     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0674     Document Type: Article

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