Specific chicken repeat 1 (CR1) retrotransposon insertion suggests phylogenetic affinity of rockfowls (genus Picathartes) to crows and ravens (Corvidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 328-337

  Treplin, Simone ^a   Tiedemann, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corvidae; CR1; Non LTR retrotransposon; Phylogeny; Picathartes

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROW; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROWS; DNA PRIMERS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVINAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PICATHARTES; TYRANNI;

EID: 33947573106     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.10.020     Document Type: Article

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