Extensive morphological convergence and rapid radiation in the evolutionary history of the family geoemydidae (old world pond turtles) revealed by SINE insertion analysis

Systematic Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 912-927

  Sasaki, Takeshi ^a   Yasukawa, Yuichirou ^b   Takahashi, Kazuhiko ^a   Miura, Seiko ^a   Shedlock, Andrew M ^c   Okada, Norihiro ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Geoemydidae; Incomplete lineage sorting; Phylogeny; Retroposon; SINE; Turtle

Indexed keywords

BATAGUR; CUORA; EMYDIDAE; GEOEMYDA; GEOEMYDIDAE; HEOSEMYS; MAUREMYS; MAUREMYS REEVESII; MAUREMYS SINENSIS; MELANOCHELYS; NOTOCHELYS; SACALIA; SIEBENROCKIELLA; SIEBENROCKIELLA CRASSICOLLIS; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDINOIDEA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; TURTLES;

EID: 34147192150     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150601058014     Document Type: Review

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