Morphological and 12S rRNA gene comparison of two Branchiostoma species in xiamen waters

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 304, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-267

  Xu, Qun Shan ^a   Ma, Fei ^a   Wang, Yi Quan ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHINA; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM;

EID: 21244476081     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21036     Document Type: Article

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