Radiation of Extant Marsupials after the K/T Boundary: Evidence from Complete Mitochondrial Genomes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Nilsson, Maria A ^a   Gullberg, Anette ^a   Spotorno, Angel E ^b   Arnason, Ulfur ^a   Janke, Axel ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Caenolestes; Dromiciops; Marsupialia; Mitogenomics; Monodelphis; Phylogeny; Rhyncholestes; Thylamys

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AUSTRALIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENOME; MARSUPIAL; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EDITING; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENOME; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, ASP; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CAENOLESTES; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; DROMICIOPS; DROMICIOPS GLIROIDES; METATHERIA; MICROBIOTHERIA; MONODELPHIS; PAUCITUBERCULATA; RHYNCHOLESTES; THYLAMYS;

EID: 0347380991     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-0001-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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