Assessing the phylogenetic utility of four mitochondrial genes and a nuclear intron in the Asian pit viper genus, Trimeresurus: Separate, simultaneous, and conditional data combination analyses

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1240-1251

  Creer, Simon ^a   Malhotra, Anita ^a   Thorpe, Roger S ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene partions; Partitioned Bremer support; Phylogeny; Trimeresurus

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIMERESURUS; VIPERIDAE;

CROTALINAE; SERPENTES; TRIMERESURUS;

EID: 0043074683     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg136     Document Type: Article

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