Molecular phylogenetics of the lizard genus Microlophus (squamata:tropiduridae): aligning and retrieving indel signal from nuclear introns.

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We use a multigene data set (the mitochondrial locus and nine nuclear gene regions) to test phylogenetic relationships in the South American "lava lizards" (genus Microlophus) and describe a strategy for aligning noncoding sequences that accounts for differences in tempo and class of mutational events. We focus on seven nuclear introns that vary in size and frequency of multibase length mutations (i.e., indels)...

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