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Molecular studies of charciform phylogeny

 

 

References




Ortí, G. 1997. The Radiation of Characiform Fishes: Evidence
from Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences. Pp. 215-239 In:
“Molecular Systematics of Fishes”, T.D. Kocher and C.
Stepien Eds., Academic Press, San Diego, California. 



Ortí, G.and A. Meyer. 1997. The radiation of characiform
fishes and the limits of resolution of mitochondrial ribosomal
DNA sequences. Syst. Biol. 46:75-100.



Ortí, G. and A. Meyer. 1996. Molecular evolution of ependymin
and the phylogenetic resolution of early divergences among
teleost fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13 (4): 556-573. 



Ortí, G., P. Petry, J. A. Porto, M. Jegú, and A. Meyer.
1996. Patterns of nucleotide change in mitochondrial ribosomal
RNA genes and the phylogeny of piranhas. Journal of Molecular
Evolution 42 (2): 169-182. 









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Guillermo Ortí

E-mail: gorti@lamarck.unl.edu 

School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
NE 68588, USA. 

http://bs-biosci.unl.edu/EOB/Orti/default.htm



Richard P. Vari

E-mail: vari.richard@nmnh.si.edu

Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA. 



Correspondence regarding this page should be directed to
Guillermo Ortí, at gorti@lamarck.unl.edu







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