Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of galaxiid fishes (osteichthyes: galaxiidae): Dispersal, vicariance, and the position of Lepidogalaxias salamandroides

Systematic Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 777-795

  Waters, Jonathan M ^a,b   López, J Andrés ^c   Wallis, Graham P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Diadromy; Evolution; Gondwana; Molecular clock; mtDNA; Phylogeny; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; FISH; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA;

EID: 0034351395     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351500750049824     Document Type: Article

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