One thousand two hundred ninety nuclear genes from a genome-wide survey support lungfishes as the sister group of tetrapods

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1803-1807

  Liang, Dan ^a   Shen, Xing Xing ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coelacanth; Phylogenomics; Sarcopterygii; Species tree; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; COELACANTH; GENE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LUNGFISH; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; TETRAPOD; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FISH; GENETICS; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; SARCOPTERYGII; SPECIES TREE;

COELACANTH; PHYLOGENOMICS; SARCOPTERYGII; SPECIES TREE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; FISHES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84881508358     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst072     Document Type: Article

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