Exhaustive sample set among Viverridae reveals the sister-group of felids: The linsangs as a case of extreme morphological convergence within Feliformia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1532, 2003, Pages 2523-2530

  Gaubert, Philippe ^a   Veron, Géraldine ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Felidae; Morphological convergence; Phylogeny; Prionodon; Transthyretin intron I; Viverridae

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; PREALBUMIN;

EVOLUTION; FELID; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; FELIDAE; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER GROUP; TAXONOMY; TRANSTHYRETIN INTRON I SEQUENCE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

FELIDAE; FELIFORMIA; GENETTA; PALEOPRIONODON; POIANA RICHARDSONII; PRIONODON; VIVERRIDAE;

EID: 0345059745     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2521     Document Type: Article

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