Making the impossible possible: Rooting the tree of placental mammals

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1999-2000

  Teeling, Emma C ^a   Hedges, S Blair ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biogeography; evolution; genome; mammals; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AARDVARK; ANTEATER; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANT SHREW; GC RICH SEQUENCE; HYRAX; LONG BRANCH ATTRACTION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE ROOT; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; REVIEW; SHREW; SLOTH; TENREC;

EID: 84883213635     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst118     Document Type: Review

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