Phylogenetic relationships of horned lizards (Phrynosoma) based on nuclear and mitochondrial data: Evidence for a misleading mitochondrial gene tree

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 628-644

  Leaché, Adam D ^a   McGuire, Jimmy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; BDNF; Data incongruence; Evolution; GAPD; Horned lizard; Hybridization; Hypothesis testing; Introgression; Mitochondrial DNA; Nuclear DNA; Phrynosoma; Phylogenetic taxonomy; Phylogeny; RAG 1; Sand lizard; Systematics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; LIZARD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY;

PHRYNOSOMA; PHRYNOSOMA BRACONNIERI; PHRYNOSOMA CORONATUM; PHRYNOSOMA DITMARSI; PHRYNOSOMA DOUGLASSII; PHRYNOSOMA HERNANDESI; PHRYNOSOMA MCALLII; PHRYNOSOMA MODESTUM; PHRYNOSOMA ORBICULARE; PHRYNOSOMA PLATYRHINOS; PHRYNOSOMA SOLARE; PHRYNOSOMA TAURUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33646398136     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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