The platypus is in its place: Nuclear genes and indels confirm the sister group relation of monotremes and therians

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 587-597

  Van Rheede, Teun ^a   Bastiaans, Trijntje ^a   Boone, David N ^b   Hedges, S Blair ^b   De Jong, Wilfried W ^a,c   Madsen, Ole ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Base composition; Divergence time; Marsupionta; Phylogeny; Theria

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CONCATENATED DNA; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DATA BASE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; MONOTREMATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PLATYPUS; SPECIES; TAXON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUTHERIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; RODENTIA; THERIA;

EID: 33244457500     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj064     Document Type: Article

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