Development and application of a phylogenomic toolkit: Resolving the evolutionary history of Madagascar's lemurs

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 489-499

  Horvath, Julie E ^a   Weisrock, David W ^a   Embry, Stephanie L ^a   Fiorentino, Isabella ^a   Balhoff, James P ^b   Kappeler, Peter ^c   Wray, Gregory A ^a   Willard, Huntington F ^a,d   Yoder, Anne D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; DAUBENTONIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEPILEMURIDAE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TERTIARY (PERIOD); UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; LEMUR; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHEIROGALEIDAE; DAUBENTONIA; INDRIDAE; LEMURIDAE; LEMURIFORMES; MEGALADAPIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 40449106663     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7265208     Document Type: Article

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