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Long-branch attraction phenomenon and the impact of among-site rate variation on rodent phylogeny.
Gene - 23 Dec 2000
Reyes A, Pesole G, Saccone C
Abstract excerpt
The phylogenetic relationships among major lineages of rodents is one of the issues most debated by both paleontologists and molecular biologists. In the present study, we have analyzed all complete mammalian mitochondrial genomes available in the databases, including five rodent species (rat, mouse, dormouse, squirrel and guinea-pig). Phylogenetic analyses were performed on H-strand amino acid sequences by means...
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