Whale phylogeny and rapid radiation events revealed using novel retroposed elements and their flanking sequences

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Zhuo ^a   Xu, Shixia ^a   Zhou, Kaiya ^a   Yang, Guang ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CETACEAN; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAXONOMY;

CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; MONODONTIDAE; PHOCOENIDAE; SKENEA; STENELLA (CETACEA); TURSIOPS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CETACEA; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CETACEA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; WHALES;

EID: 80054898023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-314     Document Type: Article

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