Time and time again: Unisexual salamanders (genus Ambystoma) are the oldest unisexual vertebrates

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bi, Ke ^a,b   Bogart, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLIOCENE;

KENTUCKY; UNITED STATES;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA BARBOURI; SALAMANDROIDEA; VERTEBRATA; ZANCLEA;

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; KENTUCKY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77955101662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-238     Document Type: Article

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