Using genes as characters and a parsimony analysis to explore the phylogenetic position of turtles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Lu, Bin ^a   Yang, Weizhao ^a   Dai, Qiang ^a   Fu, Jinzhong ^a,b  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ANURA; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHICKEN; CROCODILE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPHENODON; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; PHYLOGENY; TURTLES;

EID: 84896726754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079348     Document Type: Article

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