Molecular systematics: Perfect SINEs of evolutionary history?
Short interspersed repetitive elements - SINEs - are being championed as near-perfect phylogenetic characters; they have recently been used with notable success to resolve some phylogenetic conundrums, but they do have certain limitations that restrict their use as 'perfect' characters for molecular systematics.
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Department of Zoology, P.O. Box 118525, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8525, USA. miyamoto@zoo.ufl.edu
D000818:Animals; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D010802:Phylogeny; D020086:Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements / Q000235:genetics*