Phylogeny of caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear RAG1

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 413-427

  San Mauro, Diego ^a   Gower, David J ^b   Oommen, Oommen V ^c   Wilkinson, Mark ^b   Zardoya, Rafael ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Gymnophiona; Mitochondrial genome; Molecular phylogenetics; RAG1

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, RAG-1; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANURA; BATRACHIA; CAECILIA; CAUDATA; GEGENEOPHIS; GEGENEOPHIS RAMASWAMII; GYMNOPHIONA; ICHTHYOPHIIDAE; ICHTHYOPHIS; ICHTHYOPHIS GLUTINOSUS; MERTENSIELLA LUSCHANI; MERTENSIELLA LUSCHANI ATIFI; RHINATREMA; RHINATREMA BIVITTATUM; RHINATREMATIDAE; SCOLECOMORPHIDAE; SCOLECOMORPHUS; SCOLECOMORPHUS VITTATUS; TYPHLONECTES; TYPHLONECTES NATANS; TYPHLONECTIDAE; URAEOTYPHLIDAE; URAEOTYPHLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4444321919     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.05.014     Document Type: Article

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