Mitochondrial genomes reveal slow rates of molecular evolution and the timing of speciation in beavers (Castor), one of the largest rodent species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Horn, Susanne ^a   Durka, Walter ^b   Wolf, Ronny ^c   Ermala, Aslak ^d   Stubbe, Annegret ^e   Stubbe, Michael ^e   Hofreiter, Michael ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAVER; CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTOR FIBER; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTANT SPECIES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIFESPAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION MIGRATION; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SQUIRREL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; KINETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANOMALURUS; CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; MYA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; KINETICS; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA;

EID: 79551593039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014622     Document Type: Article

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