Molecular Systematics of Sharks and Rays

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Publications

Winchell, C. W., A. P. Martin and J. A. Mallet. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of elasmobranchs: Using LSU and SSU ribosomal RNA genes to evaluate morphology-based hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 214-224.

Martin, A. P. and T. M. Burg. 2002. Perils of paralogy: Using HSP70 genes for inferring organismal phylogenies. Systematic Biology 51: 570-587.

Martin, A. P. et al. 2001. Conservation of a simple dinucleotide repeat locus in sharks. Mol. Phylo. Evol. 23: 205-213. Get PDF/GenBank Accessions (forthcoming)

Martin, A. P. 2001. The phylogenetic placement of Chondrichthyes: Inferences from analysis of multiple genes and implications for comparative studies. Genetica 111: 349-357.

Lovejoy, N. A., E. Bermingham and A. P. Martin. 1998. South American rays came in with the sea. Nature 396: 421-422.

Martin, A. P. and G. J. P. Naylor. 1997. Independent origins of filter-feeding in megamouth and basking sharks (Order Lamniformes) inferred from phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome b gene sequences. Pp. 39-50 in K. Yano, J. F. Morrissey, Y. Yabumoto and K. Nakaya (eds.) Biology of the Megamouth Shark, Tokai Univ. Press.

Martin, A. P. 1997. Systematics of the Lamnidae and the origination time of Carcharodon carcharias inferred from the comparative analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences, pgs. 49-54 in P. Klimley and D. Ainsley (eds.) The Biology of the White Shark, Academic Press, NY.

Naylor, G. J. P., A. P. Martin, E. Mattison, and W. M. Brown. 1997. The inter-relationships of lamniform sharks: Testing phylogenetic hypotheses with sequence data. In T. D. Kocher and C. Stepien (eds.) Molecular Systematics of Fishes. Academic Press, New York.

Martin, A. P. 1995. Mitochondrial DNA sequence evolution in sharks: Rates, patterns, and phylogenetic inferences. Molecular Biology and Evolution 12: 1114-1123.

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