Molecular phylogeny of the marmots (Rodentia: Sciuridae): Tests of evolutionary and biogeographic hypotheses

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 715-734

  Steppan, Scott J ^a,b,e   Akhverdyan, Mikhail R ^c,d   Lyapunova, Elena A ^c   Fraser, Darrilyn G ^a,f   Vorontsov, Nikolai N ^c   Hoffmann, Robert S ^b   Braun, Michael J ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c KOL TSOV INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Armenia)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beringia; Cytochrome b; Holarctic; Hypothesis testing; Marmota; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

MARMOTA; MARMOTA BROWERI; MARMOTA CALIGATA; MARMOTA CAMTSCHATICA; NEARCTIC; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

CYTOCHROME B; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; MARMOTA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0033278873     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599259988     Document Type: Article

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