Out of Africa: The slow train to Australasia

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-24

  Waters, Jonathan M ^a   Roy, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Asterinid; Dispersal; Marine; Phylogeography; Rafting; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEA; STARFISH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STARFISH;

ANIMALIA; ASTERIAS; ASTERINIDAE; ASTEROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; PATIRIELLA EXIGUA;

EID: 1642411154     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490264671     Document Type: Article

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