SINE evolution, missing data, and the origin of whales

Systematic Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 808-817

  Shedlock, Andrew M ^a,b   Milinkovitch, Michel C ^c   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WHALES;

EID: 0034351398     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351500750049851     Document Type: Article

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