Molecular phylogenetic examination of the Delphinoidea trichotomy: Congruent evidence from three nuclear loci indicates that porpoises (Phocoenidae) share a more recent common ancestry with white whales (Monodontidae) than they do with true dolphins (Delphinidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 314-318

  Waddell, Victor G ^a   Milinkovitch, Michel C ^b   Bérubé, Martine ^b   Stanhope, Michael J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DIVERGENCE; LACTALBUMIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MONOPHYLY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PORPOISE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; WHALE;

CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; DELPHINIDAE; MAMMALIA; MONODON MONOCEROS; MONODONTIDAE; PHOCOENIDAE; SKENEA;

EID: 0034036223     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0751     Document Type: Article

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