A microsatellite-based multilocus phylogeny of the Drosophila melanogaster species complex.

doi:10.1016/s0960-9822(07)00490-3

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A microsatellite-based multilocus phylogeny of the Drosophila melanogaster species complex.

Current biology : CB - 22 Oct 1998

Harr B, Weiss S, David J R, Brem G, Schlötterer C

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Uncovering the genealogy of closely related species remains a major challenge for phylogenetic reconstruction. It is unlikely that the phylogeny of a single gene will represent the phylogeny of a species as a whole [1], but DNA sequence data across a large number of loci can be combined in order...

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Animals
Drosophila
Drosophila melanogaster
Microsatellite Repeats
Mutation
Phylogeny
Time

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