The complete mitochondrial genome of Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii; Smuts, 1832) and phylogenetic position of the Pholidota (Weber, 1904)

Gene

Volumn 551, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 49-54

  Du Toit, Zelda ^a   Grobler, J Paul ^a   Kotzé, Antoinette ^a,b   Jansen, Raymond ^c   Brettschneider, Helene ^b   Dalton, Desiré L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b National Zoological Gardens of South Africa   (South Africa)

^c TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeny; Smutsia temminckii; Temminck's ground pangolin

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFROTHERIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANGOLIN; PHOLIDOTA; PHYLOGENY; XENARTHRA; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; ORCHIDACEAE;

MANIS TEMMINCKII;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MAMMALS; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84907510676     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.08.040     Document Type: Article

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