Evolution and phylogenetic information content of mitochondrial genomic structural features illustrated with acrodont lizards

Systematic Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 257-277

  Macey, J Robert ^a   Schulte II, James A ^a   Larson, Allan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrodonta; Gene organization; Mitochondrial DNA, phylogenetics; Replication; Reptilia; tRNA

Indexed keywords

ACRODONTA; BOIDAE; COLUBRIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA; VIPERIDAE;

ASPARAGINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; RNA, TRANSFER, ASN; RNA, TRANSFER, PHE;

EID: 0034350431     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/49.2.257     Document Type: Article

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