Ultraconserved elements anchor thousands of genetic markers spanning multiple evolutionary timescales

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 717-726

  Faircloth, Brant C ^a   McCormack, John E ^b   Crawford, Nicholas G ^c   Harvey, Michael G ^b   Brumfield, Robb T ^b   Glenn, Travis C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flanking sequence; genetic markers; phylogenomics; sequence capture; target enrichment; ultraconserved elements

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84859548731     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys004     Document Type: Article

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