Phylogenetic relationships of rock-wallabies, Petrogale (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) and their biogeographic history within Australia

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 640-652

  Potter, Sally ^a,e   Cooper, Steven J B ^a,b   Metcalfe, Cushla J ^c,f   Taggart, David A ^a,d   Eldridge, Mark D B ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Royal Zoological Society of South Australia ^*  (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular dating; Nuclear DNA; Petrogale; Rock wallaby

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE II; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; MARSUPIAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; KARYOTYPING; MACROPODIDAE; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MACROPODIDAE; METATHERIA; PENICILLATA; PERADORCAS; PERADORCAS CONCINNA; PETROGALE; PETROGALE CONCINNA; PETROGALE PERSEPHONE; PETROGALE PURPUREICOLLIS; PETROGALE XANTHOPUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855190302     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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