Evolutionary relationships of marine turtles: A molecular phylogeny based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 659-662

  Naro Maciel, Eugenia ^a   Le, Minh ^a   FitzSimmons, Nancy N ^b   Amato, George ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; MARKOV CHAINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURTLES;

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 55049101153     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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