Three ambitious (and rather unorthodox) assignments for the field of biodiversity genetics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 11564-11570

  Avise, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Nature reserves; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50049129921     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801924105     Document Type: Article

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