Out of Antarctica? - New insights into the phylogeny and biogeography of the Pleurobranchomorpha (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 996-1007

  Göbbeler, Katrin ^a   Klussmann Kolb, Annette ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancestral area analyses; Historical biogeography; Molecular clock; Opisthobranchia; Phylogeny; Phylogeography; Pleurobranchomorpha

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROPOD; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTROPODA; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; NUDIBRANCHIA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; TOMTHOMPSONIA;

EID: 77953326543     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.11.027     Document Type: Article

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