Evolutionary relationships between reptiles inferred from the comparison of their ITS2 sequences

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 864-873

  Voronov, A S ^a   Shibalev, D V ^a   Kupriyanova, N S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA;

ALLIGATOR; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENOME SIZE; LIZARD; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPTILE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SNAKE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TURTLE;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960470762     PISSN: 10227954     EISSN: 16083369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1022795411060160     Document Type: Article

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