Molecular and genomic data identify the closest living relative of primates

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5851, 2007, Pages 792-794

  Janečka, Jan E ^a   Miller, Webb ^b   Pringle, Thomas H ^c   Wiens, Frank ^d   Zitzmann, Annette ^e   Helgen, Kristofer M ^f   Springer, Mark S ^g   Murphy, William J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sperling Foundation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOPTERA; EUARCHONTA; EXON; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; LONG BRANCH ATTRACTION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTILOCERCIDAE; PTILOCERCUS LOWII; SCANDENTIA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CYNOCEPHALIDAE; DERMOPTERA; PRIMATES; PTILOCERCUS; PTILOCERCUS LOWII; SCANDENTIA;

DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SCANDENTIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 38449121762     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147555     Document Type: Article

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