Rooting phylogenies using gene duplications: An empirical example from the bees (Apoidea)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-304

  Brady, Seán G ^a   Litman, Jessica R ^b   Danforth, Bryan N ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoidea; Elongation factor 1 alpha; Hymenoptera; Molecular phylogeny; Paralogy; Rooting

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

APOIDEA; COLLETIDAE; CRABRONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; SPHECIDAE;

EID: 79959674740     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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