Mitochondrial phylogenetics and evolution of mysticete whales

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-90

  Sasaki, Takeshi ^a,b   Nikaido, Masato ^a   Hamilton, Healy ^c,d   Goto, Mutsuo ^e   Kato, Hidehiro ^f   Kanda, Naohisa ^e   Pastene, Luis A ^e   Cao, Ying ^g,h   Fordyce, R Ewan ⁱ   Hasegawa, Masami ^g,h   Okada, Norihiro ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e T   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^g INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^h GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ancestral polymorphism; Baleen whale; Evolution; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular clock; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WHALES;

EID: 20144387748     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150590905939     Document Type: Article

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