First Application of the SINE (Short Interspersed Repetitive Element) Method to Infer Phylogenetic Relationships in Reptiles: An Example from the Turtle Superfamily Testudinoidea

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 705-715

  Sasaki, Takeshi ^a,b   Takahashi, Kazuhiko ^b   Nikaido, Masato ^a   Miura, Seiko ^b   Yasukawa, Yuichirou ^c   Okada, Norihiro ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Phylogeny; Retroposon; SINE; Tortoise; Turtle

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPTILE; RETROPOSON; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TURTLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA POLYMERASE III; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; TURTLES;

AMPHIBIA; BATAGURIDAE; CRYPTODIRA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDINOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842452859     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh069     Document Type: Article

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