Rodents of the Caribbean: Origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Fabre, Pierre Henri ^a   Vilstrup, Julia T ^b   Raghavan, Maanasa ^b   Sarkissian, Clio Der ^b   Willerslev, Eske ^b   Douzery, Emmanuel J P ^c   Orlando, Ludovic ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Biogeography; Capromyidae; GAARlandia; Islands; West Indies

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MUSEUM; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RODENT; VICARIANCE;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES;

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; CARIBBEAN; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RODENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARIBBEAN REGION; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84906071058     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0266     Document Type: Article

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