A multilocus molecular phylogeny of combtooth blennies (Percomorpha: Blennioidei: Blenniidae): Multiple invasions of intertidal habitats

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-56

  Hundt, Peter J ^a   Iglésias, Samuel P ^b   Hoey, Andrew S ^c,d   Simons, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Blenniidae; Intertidal habitat; Marine fish; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BLENNIIDAE; BLENNIOIDEI; PERCOMORPHA; PISCES;

ANCESTRAL STATE RECONSTRUCTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLENNIIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INTERTIDAL HABITAT; MARINE FISH; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANCESTRAL STATE RECONSTRUCTION; BLENNIIDAE; INTERTIDAL HABITAT; MARINE FISH; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84884637334     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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