Optimal data partitioning and a test case for ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on ten nuclear loci

Systematic Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 519-539

  Li, Chenhong ^a   Lu, Guoqing ^b   Ortí, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinopterygii; Cluster analysis; Data partitioning; Holostei; Nuclear loci; Phylogenetics; Ray finned fish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FISHES; GENES; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOPTERYGII; AMIA; ATHERINOMORPHA; CICHLIDAE; ESOCIFORMES; HOLOSTEI; LEPISOSTEUS; OSMERIFORMES; PERCIFORMES; SALMONIFORMES; STOMIIFORMES; TETRAPODA;

GENETIC MARKER;

EID: 47249090871     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150802206883     Document Type: Article

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