Single origin of Malagasy Carnivora from an African ancestor

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6924, 2003, Pages 734-737

  Yoder, Anne D ^a,b   Burns, Melissa M ^b   Zehr, Sarah ^b   Delefosse, Thomas ^a   Veron, Geraldine ^c   Goodman, Steven M ^b,d   Flynn, John J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d WWF Antananarivo   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

MULTIGENE PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY;

COLONIZATION; EVOLUTION; ISLAND; ISOLATED POPULATION; MAMMAL;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARNIVORA; CLADISTICS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; INSECTIVORE; MADAGASCAR; MAMMAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SEA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; FOSSILS; MADAGASCAR; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREALBUMIN; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

MADAGASCAR;

CARNIVORA; LEMURIFORMES; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242684561     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01303     Document Type: Article

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