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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of turtles.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Oct 2005
Krenz James G, Naylor Gavin J P, Shaffer H Bradley, Janzen Fredric J
Abstract excerpt
Turtles are one of Earth's most instantly recognizable life forms, distinguished for over 200 million years in the fossil record. Even so, key nodes in the phylogeny of turtles remain uncertain. To address this issue, we sequenced >90% of the nuclear recombination activase gene 1 (RAG-1) for 24 species representing all modern turtle families. RAG-1 exhibited negligible saturation and base composition bias, and...
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