Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of Malagasy tenrecs: Influence of data partitioning and taxon sampling on dating analyses

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Poux, Céline ^a,c   Madsen, Ole ^a,d   Glos, Julian ^b,e   De Jong, Wilfried W ^a   Vences, Miguel ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MADAGASCAR; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SAMPLING; TAXON; TENRECS; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INSECTIVORA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFROTHERIA; ECHINOPS (MAMMAL); EUTHERIA; GEOGALE; HEMICENTETES; LIMNOGALE; MACROSCELIDEA; MICROGALE; ORYZORICTES; ORYZORICTINAE; PROCAVIIDAE; SETIFER; TENREC; TENRECIDAE; TENRECINAE; TUBULIDENTATA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; INSECTIVORA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MADAGASCAR; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 42549165431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-102     Document Type: Article

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