Dating cryptodiran nodes: Origin and diversification of the turtle superfamily Testudinoidea

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 496-507

  Lourenço, João M ^a   Claude, Julien ^a   Galtier, Nicolas ^a   Chiari, Ylenia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Complete mitochondrial genome; Fossil calibration; Molecular dating; Phylogeny; Turtles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIBRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURTLES;

EMYS ORBICULARIS; MYA; PHRYNOPS HILARII; RHINOCLEMMYS PUNCTULARIA; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINOIDEA;

EID: 83655183135     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.022     Document Type: Article

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