Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and habitat preference evolution of Marsupials

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2322-2330

  Mitchell, Kieren J ^a   Pratt, Renae C ^b   Watson, Laura N ^a   Gibb, Gillian C ^c   Llamas, Bastien ^a   Kasper, Marta ^a   Edson, Janette ^a   Hopwood, Blair ^a   Male, Dean ^a   Armstrong, Kyle N ^a   Meyer, Matthias ^d   Hofreiter, Michael ^e   Austin, Jeremy ^a   Donnellan, Stephen C ^a,f   Lee, Michael S Y ^a,f   Phillips, Matthew J ^g   Cooper, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^g QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Mammal; Mitochondrion; Supermatrix

Indexed keywords

ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; MARSUPIAL; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLIOCENE; SOUTH AMERICA; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MARSUPIALIA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84906771309     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu176     Document Type: Article

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