The evolution of armadillos, anteaters and sloths depicted by nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies: Implications for the status of the enigmatic fossil Eurotamandua

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1476, 2001, Pages 1605-1615

  Delsuc, F ^a   Catzeflis, F M ^a   Stanhope, M J ^a   Douzery, E J P ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Eurotamandua; Local molecular clocks; Molecular phylogeny; Pilosa; Von Willebrand factor; Xenarthra

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANTEATER; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EDENTATA; EVOLUTION; EXON; FOSSIL; GENE SEQUENCE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SLOTH;

ARMADILLO; CINGULATA; DASYPODIDAE; EDENTATA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; MYRMECOPHAGIDAE; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 0035822610     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1702     Document Type: Article

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