Origin and evolutionary relationships of giant Galapagos tortoises

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 13223-13228

  Caccone, Adalgisa ^a,d   Gibbs, James P ^b   Ketmaier, Valerio ^a,c   Suatoni, Elizabeth ^a   Powell, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; TURTLE;

AMPHIBIA; CHACO; GEOCHELONE CHILENSIS; GEOCHELONE NIGRA; INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 0033539615     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.23.13223     Document Type: Article

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