A web-database of mammalian morphology and a reanalysis of placental phylogeny

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Asher, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLADISTICS; CONSENSUS; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EDENTATA; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INTERNET; MAMMAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PLACENTA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AFROTHERIA; ERINACEUS; EUARCHONTOGLIRES; EUTHERIA; LAURASIATHERIA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PALEOPARADOXIA; PLESIORYCTEROPUS; RODENTIA; XENARTHRA; ZALAMBDALESTES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; FEMALE; INTERNET; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 34547791206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-108     Document Type: Article

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