True and false gharials: A nuclear gene phylogeny of Crocodylia

Systematic Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 386-402

  Harshman, John ^a,b   Huddleston, Christopher J ^a   Bollback, Jonathan P ^a,c,d   Parsons, Thomas J ^a,e   Braun, Michael J ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b University of Rochester ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

c myc; Crocodylia; Data conflict; Data partitions; Partitioned likelihood analysis; Phylogeny; Rooting

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); GAVIALINAE; GAVIALIS; GAVIALIS GANGETICUS; REPTILIA; TOMISTOMA; TOMISTOMA SCHLEGELII;

EID: 0037771494     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150390197028     Document Type: Article

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