Diversification of Ramphastinae (Aves, Ramphastidae) prior to the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary as shown by molecular clock of mtDNA sequences

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 411-418

  Nahum, Laila Alves ^a,b   Pereira, Sérgio Luiz ^a,c   de Campos Fernandes, Flora Maria ^a   Matioli, Sergio Russo ^a   Wajntal, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Alellyx Applied Genomics   (Brazil)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

12S rDNA; Cytochrome b; Divergence times; K T; Mass extinction; Paleogeography; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIRD; CALIBRATION; CAPITO; CAPITONINAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EOCENE; FOWL; GALLIFORMES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOLOGY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIOCENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PICIFORMES; RAMPHASTINAE; RAMPHASTOS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SUBSTITUTION LINE; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY;

AVES; CAPITO; CAPITO DAYI; GALLIFORMES; MYA; PICIFORMES; RAMPHASTIDAE; RAMPHASTOS; RAMPHASTOS TUCANUS;

EID: 0347989251     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572003000400003     Document Type: Article

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