Nuclear gene sequences provide evidence for the monophyly of australidelphian marsupials

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 186-196

  Amrine Madsen, Heather ^a,b   Scally, Mark ^a,c   Westerman, Michael ^d   Stanhope, Michael J ^b,c   Krajewski, Carey ^d,e   Springer, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DASYUROMORPHIA; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; DIPROTODONTIA; DROMICIOPS; DROMICIOPS GLIROIDES; METATHERIA; MICROBIOTHERIA; NOTORYCTEMORPHIA; PAUCITUBERCULATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0141721427     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00122-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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