43 genes support the lungfish-coelacanth grouping related to the closest living relative of tetrapods with the Bayesian method under the coalescence model

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shan, Yunfeng ^a   Gras, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COELACANTHIDAE; DIPNOI; LATIMERIA CHALUMNAE; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952345833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-49     Document Type: Article

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