Relationships among the families and orders of marsupials and the major mammalian lineages based on recombination activating gene-1

Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-16

  Baker, Michelle L ^a   Wares, John P ^a   Harrison, Gavan A ^b   Miller, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mammalia; Marsupionta; RAG1; Theria

Indexed keywords

CAENOLESTIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; NOTORYCTEMORPHIA; NOTORYCTES TYPHLOPS; PAUCITUBERCULATA; PERAMELIDAE; THERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3542996348     PISSN: 10647554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOMM.0000029143.39776.ec     Document Type: Article

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