Article
Molecular systematics of marsupials based on the rRNA 12S mitochondrial gene: the phylogeny of didelphimorphia and of the living fossil microbiotheriid Dromiciops gliroides thomas.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 1999
Palma R E, Spotorno A E
Abstract excerpt
Nucleotide sequence data from the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene were used to evaluate the phylogenetic relationships among the major groups of didelphimorph and paucituberculatan marsupials from South America, the microbiotheriid Dromiciops gliroides, and representatives of four orders of Australasian marsupials. Based on approximately 800 bp in 18 genera, we conclude that the didelphids constitute a monophyletic...
Topics
- Americas
- Animals
- Australia
- Eulipotyphla
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Likelihood Functions
- Marsupialia
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Opossums
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal