Molecules consolidate the placental mammal tree

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 430-438

  Springer, Mark S ^a   Stanhope, Michael J ^b   Madsen, Ole ^c   De Jong, Wilfried W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3343020196     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.05.006     Document Type: Review

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