Mammalian evolution may not be strictly bifurcating

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2804-2816

  Hallström, Björn M ^a   Janke, Axel ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Klima Forschungszentrum BiK F ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

continental drift; Cretaceous warming; genome analysis; hybridization; phylogenomics; split decomposition

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTROGRESSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; RADIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETIC DRIFT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78649382339     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq166     Document Type: Article

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