Type I STS Markers Are More Informative than Cytochrome b in Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Mustelidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 571-593

  Koepfli, Klaus Peter ^a   Wayne, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CARNIVORA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CARNIVORA; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA PRIMERS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA; MELINAE; MUSTELIDAE; MUSTELINAE; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE; TAXUS;

EID: 0242507502     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150390235368     Document Type: Article

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