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Molecular systemati...
Molecular systematics of primary reptilian lineages and the tuatara mitochondrial genome.
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- Rest, Joshua S (author)
- University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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- Ast, Jennifer C (author)
- University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Austin, Christopher C (author)
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Waddell, Peter J (author)
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- Tibbetts, Elizabeth A (author)
- University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Hay, Jennifer M (author)
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- Mindell, David P (author)
- University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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- 2003
- 2003
- English.
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In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. - 1055-7903 .- 1095-9513. ; 29:2, s. 289-97
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- We provide phylogenetic analyses for primary Reptilia lineages including, for the first time, Sphenodon punctatus (tuatara) using data from whole mitochondrial genomes. Our analyses firmly support a sister relationship between Sphenodon and Squamata, which includes lizards and snakes. Using Sphenodon as an outgroup for select squamates, we found evidence indicating a sister relationship, among our study taxa, between Serpentes (represented by Dinodon) and Varanidae. Our analyses support monophyly of Archosauria, and a sister relationship between turtles and archosaurs. This latter relationship is congruent with a growing set of morphological and molecular analyses placing turtles within crown Diapsida and recognizing them as secondarily anapsid (lacking a skull fenestration). Inclusion of Sphenodon, as the only surviving member of Sphenodontia (with fossils from the mid-Triassic), helps to fill a sampling gap within previous analyses of reptilian phylogeny. We also report a unique configuration for the mitochondrial genome of Sphenodon, including two tRNA(Lys) copies and an absence of ND5, tRNA(His), and tRNA(Thr) genes.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Zoologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Zoology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Evolutionsbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Evolutionary Biology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biologisk systematik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biological Systematics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Biologi med inriktning mot systematik
- Biology with specialization in Systematics
- Biology with specialization in Molecular Evolution
- Biologi med inriktning mot molekylär evolution
- Biologi med inriktning mot evolutionär organismbiologi
- Biology with specialization in Evolutionary Organismal Biology
- Systematic Zoology
- Systematisk zoologi
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