Arrival and diversification of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine primates in South America

Systematic Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 228-244

  Poux, Céline ^a,b   Chevret, Pascale ^a   Huchon, Dorothée ^c   De Jong, Wilfried W ^b   Douzery, Emmanuel J P ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Caviomorpha; Colonization; Molecular dating; Nuclear genes; Platyrrhini; South America

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLATYRRHINI; POPULATION MIGRATION; RODENT; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETIC MARKERS; PHYLOGENY; PLATYRRHINI; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; RODENTIA; SOUTH AMERICA; VARIATION (GENETICS); VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 33745001667     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150500481390     Document Type: Article

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