Seven new dolphin mitochondrial genomes and a time-calibrated phylogeny of whales

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Xiong, Ye ^a   Brandley, Matthew C ^b   Xu, Shixia ^a   Zhou, Kaiya ^a   Yang, Guang ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOLPHIN; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGENY; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOLPHINS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WHALES;

EID: 62449092560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-20     Document Type: Article

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