Mitochondrial DNA sequence evolution and phylogeny of the Atlantic alcidae, including the extinct great auk (Pinguinus impennis)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1434-1439

  Moum, Truls ^a   Arnason, Ulfur ^b   Árnason, Einar ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Alcid phylogeny; Atlantic auk assemblage; Mitochondrial DNA; Pinguinus impennis; Sequence evolution

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLONING; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PINGUINUS IMPENNIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEABIRD; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALCA; ALCA TORDA; ALCIDAE; ALLE; ALLE ALLE; AVES; CICONIIFORMES; PINGUINUS; PINGUINUS IMPENNIS; URIA AALGE; URIA LOMVIA; URJA AALGE; URJA LOMVIA;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0036726405     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004206     Document Type: Article

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