Phylogenetics of modern birds in the era of genomics

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1567, 2005, Pages 979-992

  Edwards, Scott V ^a   Jennings, W Bryan ^a   Shedlock, Andrew M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bag libraries; Bird phylogeny; Community genomics; Concatenation; Retroelement

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLASMID DNA; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

BIRD; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BIRD; CHICKEN; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENOMICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 21744454112     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3035     Document Type: Review

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