Rapid Radiation Events in the Family Ursidae Indicated by Likelihood Phylogenetic Estimation from Multiple Fragments of mtDNA

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 82-92

  Waits, Lisette P ^a   Sullivan, Jack ^b   O'Brien, Stephen J ^c   Ward, R H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Biological Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; URSIDAE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033209719     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0637     Document Type: Article

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