Evaluating phylogenetic informativeness and data-type usage for new protein-coding genes across Vertebrata

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 300-307

  Fong, Jonathan J ^a   Fujita, Matthew K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniota; Amphibia; Aves; CDNA; EST; Mammalia; Marker development; Marsupionta hypothesis; Reptilia; Tetrapoda; Theria hypothesis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MARSUPIAL; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOTREMATE; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CODON; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOMICS; MARSUPIALIA; MONOTREMATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; VERTEBRATES;

AMNIOTA; AMPHIBIA; AVES; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; REPTILIA; TETRAPODA; THERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052695664     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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