Colugos: Obscure mammals glide into the evolutionary limelight

Journal of Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Martin, Robert D ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SHREW; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; REVIEW; SCANDENTIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CYNOCEPHALIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; TUPAIIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUPAIIDAE;

EID: 48549106801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14754924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/jbiol74     Document Type: Short Survey

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