Interrelationships among gekkonid geckos inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences

Zoological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 656-665

  Feng, Jinye ^a   Han, Demin ^a,b   Bauer, Aaron M ^c   Zhou, Kaiya ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

12s rRNA; C mos; Gekkonidae; Interrelationships

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, MOS; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUBLEPHARIDAE; GEKKONIDAE; SPHAERODACTYLUS; TERATOSCINCUS;

EID: 34548612529     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.24.656     Document Type: Article

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