Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the South American and the Australian lungfish: Testing of the phylogenetic performance of mitochondrial data sets for phylogenetic problems in tetrapod relationships

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 834-848

  Brinkmann, Henner ^a,c   Denk, Angelika ^a,d   Zitzler, Jürgen ^a,e   Joss, Jean J ^b   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Xantos   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long branch attraction; Lungfish; Mitochondrial genome; Origin of tetrapods; Sarcopterygii

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENE ORDER; GENOME; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA; VERTEBRATES;

COELACANTHIDAE; DIPNOI; ENTOVALVA; LATIMERIA CHALUMNAE; LEPIDOSIREN PARADOXA; NEOCERATODUS; NEOCERATODUS FORSTERI; PROTOPTERUS AETHIOPICUS; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI; SARCOPTERYGII; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 11944270355     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0122-8     Document Type: Article

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