Four new avian mitochondrial genomes help get to basic evolutionary questions in the late cretaceous

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 974-983

  Harrison, G L ^a,d   McLenachan, P A ^a   Phillips, M J ^a   Slack, Kerryn E ^a,b   Cooper, Alan ^c   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d FIJI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Anseranas (Anseriformes); Avian evolution; Kakapo (parrot Psittaciformes); Mitochondrial genomes; Morepork (owl, Strigiformes); Rifleman (N Z Wren, Passeriformes); RY coding

Indexed keywords

PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CALIBRATION; CODON; CRETACEOUS; DUCKS AND GEESE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENOME; GOOSE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OWL; PARROT; TAXON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACANTHISITTA CHLORIS; ACANTHISITTIDAE; ANAS; ANIMALIA; ANSER; ANSER SP.; ANSERANAS; ANSERANAS SEMIPALMATA; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; CHLORIS; NINOX; NINOX NOVAESEELANDIAE; PASSERIFORMES; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442667686     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh065     Document Type: Article

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