Initial Results on the Molecular Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) Based on 18S rDNA Data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 215-226

  Wollscheid, Evi ^a   Wägele, Heike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nudibranchia; Opisthobranchia; Gastropoda; 18S rDNA; molecular systematics; computer analyses; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLLUSC; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033218265     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0664     Document Type: Article

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