Are crocodiles really monophyletic? - Evidence for subdivisions from sequence and morphological data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-32

  McAliley, L Rex ^a   Willis, Ray E ^a   Ray, David A ^a,d   White, P Scott ^b   Brochu, Christopher A ^c   Densmore III, Llewellyn D ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C mos; Crocodylus; Crocodylus cataphractus; Mecistops; Mitochondrial control region; Mitochondrial ND6; ODC; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CYTOCHROME B; GLUTAMYL TRNA REDUCTASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ONCOGENE; PHYLOGENY;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, MOS; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHYLOGENY;

ALLIGATOR; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS; CROCODYLUS CATAPHRACTUS; OSTEOLAEMUS;

EID: 33644959292     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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