Late Pleistocene Australian marsupial DNA clarifies the affinities of extinct megafaunal kangaroos and wallabies

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 574-584

  Llamas, Bastien ^a   Brotherton, Paul ^a,d   Mitchell, Kieren J ^a   Templeton, Jennifer E L ^a,b   Thomson, Vicki A ^a   Metcalf, Jessica L ^a,e   Armstrong, Kyle N ^a   Kasper, Marta ^a,f   Richards, Stephen M ^a   Camens, Aaron B ^a,b   Lee, Michael S Y ^a,c   Cooper, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d BiSN Laboratory Services   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f FORENSIC SCIENCE SA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Lagostrophinae; Macropodinae; Phylogenetics; Sthenurinae

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; BAYES THEOREM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA CONTENT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; KANGAROO; MARSUPIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; WALLABY; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; CAVE; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; CAVES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; MACROPODIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84965094863     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu338     Document Type: Article

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