Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the Japanese clawed salamander, Onychodactylus japonicus (Amphibia: Caudata: Hynobiidae), and its congener inferred from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 249-259

  Yoshikawa, Natsuhiko ^a   Matsui, Masafumi ^a   Nishikawa, Kanto ^a   Kim, Jong Bum ^b   Kryukov, Alexei ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cytochrome b; mtDNA; Onychodactylus fischeri; Onychodactylus japonicus; Paraphyly

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

AMPHIBIA; CAUDATA; HYNOBIIDAE; ONYCHODACTYLUS FISCHERI; ONYCHODACTYLUS JAPONICUS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 52049110036     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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