Molecular phylogeny of short-tailed opossums (Didelphidae: Monodelphis): Taxonomic implications and tests of evolutionary hypotheses

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 199-214

  Pavan, Silvia E ^a,b   Jansa, Sharon A ^c   Voss, Robert S ^b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammal; Marmosini; Marsupial; MtDNA; NDNA; Neotropical

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENETICS; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MONODELPHIS; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; EXONS; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; INTRONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONODELPHIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84904130794     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.029     Document Type: Article

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