The Long and Short of It: Branch Lengths and the Problem of Placing the New Zealand Short-Tailed Bat, Mystacina

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 405-416

  Kennedy, Martyn ^a   Paterson, Adrian M ^b   Morales, Juan Carlos ^c   Parsons, Stuart ^a   Winnington, Andrew P ^a   Spencer, Hamish G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEW ZEALAND; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIROPTERA; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033219008     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0660     Document Type: Article

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