Deciphering and dating the red Panda's ancestry and early adaptive radiation of musteloidea

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 907-922

  Sato, Jun J ^a   Wolsan, Mieczyslaw ^b   Minami, Shinji ^c   Hosoda, Tetsuji ^d   Sinaga, Martua H ^e   Hiyama, Kozue ^a   Yamaguchi, Yasunori ^a   Suzuki, Hitoshi ^f  

^a FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^c Asa Zoological Park   (Japan)

^d Taikyu High School   (Japan)

^e INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ailuridae; Ailurus fulgens; Biogeography; Caniformia; Carnivora; Divergence times; Diversification; Phylogeny; Pinnipedia; Semantoridae

Indexed keywords

AILURIDAE; AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; AILURUS FULGENS; CANIFORMIA; CARNIVORA; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIDAE; MUSTELIDAE; MUSTELINAE; ODOBENIDAE; OTARIIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; PROCYON; PROCYONIDAE; TAXIDIINAE; URSIDAE;

AILURIDAE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AILURIDAE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 74949102889     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.08.019     Document Type: Article

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