The value of idiosyncratic markers and changes to conserved tRNA sequences from the mitochondrial genome of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) for phylogenetic inference

Systematic Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 296-310

  Murrell, Anna ^a   Campbell, Nick J H ^a   Barker, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Idiosyncratic markers; Ixodidae; Phylogeny; Ticks

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; TICK;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC MARKERS; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; IXODES; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0037810913     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150309325     Document Type: Article

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