Evidence for placing the false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii) into the family Gavialidae: Inferences from nuclear gene sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 787-794

  Willis, Ray E ^a,b   McAliley, L Rex ^a   Neeley, Erika D ^a   Densmore III, Llewellyn D ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C mos; Crocodylidae; DMP1; Gavialidae; Gavialis gangeticus; Systematics; Tomistoma schlegelii

Indexed keywords

SCLEROPROTEIN;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PHYLOGENY;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENES, MOS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATORINAE; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS; GAVIALINAE; GAVIALIS GANGETICUS; OSTEOLAEMUS; TOMISTOMA SCHLEGELII;

EID: 34248651818     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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