A splitting headache: Relationships and generic boundaries among Australian murids

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 117-138

  Ford, Fred ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conilurine; Mastacomys; Notomys; Phylogeny; Pseudomys; Rodent; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

MAMMALIA; MASTACOMYS; MURIDAE; PSEUDOMYS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33747461298     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00663.x     Document Type: Review

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