Paleogenetic analyses reveal unsuspected phylogenetic affinities between mice and the extinct Malpaisomys insularis, an endemic rodent of the Canaries

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Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Pagès, Marie ^a,h,i   Chevret, Pascale ^a   Gros Balthazard, Muriel ^a,g   Hughes, Sandrine ^a   Alcover, Josep Antoni ^b,c   Hutterer, Rainer ^d   Rando, Juan Carlos ^e,f   Michaux, Jacques ^g   Hänni, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^h INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; DNA;

AGE; ARTICLE; CANARY ISLANDS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTANT SPECIES; FOSSIL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LAVA MOUSE; MALPAISOMYS INSULARIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MURINAE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RODENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH;

EID: 84857398207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031123     Document Type: Article

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