Asynchronous colonization of Madagascar by the four endemic clades of primates, tenrecs, carnivores, and rodents as inferred from nuclear genes

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 719-730

  Poux, Céline ^a   Madsen, Ole ^a   Marquard, Elisabeth ^a,b   Vieites, David R ^c   De Jong, Wilfried W ^a,b   Vences, Miguel ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analyses; Endemic mammals; Island colonization; Madagascar; Maximum likelihood; Molecular dating; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; LORIDAE; MAMMALIA; MYA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; STREPSIRHINI; TENRECIDAE;

EID: 31344479029     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150500234534     Document Type: Article

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