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The "Phoca standard": an external molecular reference for calibrating recent evolutionary divergences.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jul 1996

Arnason U, Xu X, Gullberg A, Graur D

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Comparison of the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the high-Arctic ringed seal (Phoca hispida) and the sub-Arctic harbour (P. vitulina) and grey (Halichoerus grypus) seals shows that they are genetically equidistant from one another. We relate the evolutionary divergence of the three species to expanding glaciation in the Arctic Basin and establish, in conjunction with mtDNA data, a standard reference for...

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PMID: 8660422
DOI: 10.1007/BF02352298

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