Retroposed elements and their flanking regions resolve the evolutionary history of Xenarthran mammals (armadillos, anteaters, and sloths)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2573-2582

  Möller Krull, Maren ^a   Delsuc, Frédéric ^b   Churakov, Gennady ^a   Marker, Claudia ^a   Superina, Mariella ^c   Brosius, Jürgen ^a   Douzery, Emmanuel J P ^b   Schmitz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

DAS SINE; Maximum likelihood; Phylogeny; Rare genomic changes; Retroposon

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTEATER; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; CABASSOUS; CHAETOPHRACTUS; CHLAMYPHORUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EDENTATA; EUPHRACTUS; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SLOTH; TOLYPEUTES; ZAEDYUS;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SLOTHS; XENARTHRA;

ARMADILLO; CABASSOUS; CHAETOPHRACTUS; CHLAMYPHORINAE; CHLAMYPHORUS; DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; EUPHRACTUS; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; MYRMECOPHAGIDAE; SLOTHS; TOLYPEUTES; XENARTHRA; ZAEDYUS;

EID: 35848949073     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm201     Document Type: Article

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