MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-107

  Lyson, Tyler R ^a   Sperling, Erik A ^a,d   Heimberg, Alysha M ^b   Gauthier, Jacques A ^a   King, Benjamin L ^c   Peterson, Kevin J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniote; MicroRNA; Turtle

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; LIZARD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RELATEDNESS; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TURTLE;

AMNIOTA; ARCHOSAURIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); LEPIDOSAURIA; REPTILIA; SAURIA; SPHENODON; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84856275923     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0477     Document Type: Article

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