Molecular versus taxonomic rates of evolution in planktonic foraminifera.

doi:10.1006/mpev.1998.0491

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Molecular versus taxonomic rates of evolution in planktonic foraminifera.

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jun 1998

de Vargas C, Pawlowski J

Abstract excerpt

Neogene planktonic foraminifera are among the most widely used microfossils in the study of tempo and mode of evolution. Comparisons of taxonomic rates between the two major clades in this group have shown that the nonspinose globorotaliids have undergone a significantly more rapid evolutionary t...

Topics

Animals
DNA, Ribosomal
Evolution, Molecular
Fossils
Genetic Variation
Phylogeny
Plankton
Sequence Alignment
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Time

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