Targeting optimal introns for phylogenetic analyses in non-model taxa: Experimental results in Asian pitvipers

Cladistics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 390-395

  Creer, Simon ^a   Malhotra, Anita ^a   Thorpe, Roger S ^a   Pook, Catharine E ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; PHYLOGENETICS; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 33745141566     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00072.x     Document Type: Article

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