On the phylogeny of Mustelidae subfamilies: Analysis of seventeen nuclear non-coding loci and mitochondrial complete genomes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yu, Li ^a   Peng, Dan ^a   Liu, Jiang ^a   Luan, Pengtao ^a   Liang, Lu ^b   Lee, Hang ^c   Lee, Muyeong ^c   Ryder, Oliver A ^d   Zhang, Yaping ^a,b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUSTELID; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

CARNIVORA; LUTRINAE; MELINAE; MUSTELIDAE; MUSTELINAE; TAXIDIINAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSTELIDAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSTELIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79953763102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-92     Document Type: Article

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