Phylogeny and divergence of the pinnipeds (Carnivora: Mammalia) assessed using a multigene dataset

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Higdon, Jeff W ^a   Bininda Emonds, Olaf R P ^b   Beck, Robin M D ^c   Ferguson, Steven H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOPHYLY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ODOBENIDAE; OTARIIDAE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHOCIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ARCTOCEPHALUS; CARNIVORA; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; MAMMALIA; ODOBENIDAE; OTARIIDAE; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; PUSA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PINNIPEDIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38649115646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-216     Document Type: Article

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