A comprehensive phylogeny of extant horses, rhinos and tapirs (Perissodactyla) through data combination

Zoosystematics and Evolution

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 277-292

  Price, Samantha A ^a   Bininda Emonds, Olaf R P ^b  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global congruence; Supermatrix; Supertree; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CERATOMORPHA; DICERORHINUS SUMATRENSIS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS QUAGGA; HIPPOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; PERISSODACTYLA; RHINOCEROS; RHINOCEROTIDAE; TAPIRIDAE;

EID: 84857481548     PISSN: 14351935     EISSN: 18600743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoos.200900005     Document Type: Article

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