Complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences show that modern birds are not descended from transitional shorebirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1493, 2002, Pages 839-846

  Paton, Tara ^a   Haddrath, Oliver ^a   Baker, Allan J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charadriiformes; Mitochondrial DNA genomes; Molecular dating; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AVIFAUNA; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FOSSIL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; RNA GENE; SHOREBIRD;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; ARENARIA INTERPRES; AVES; CHARADRIIFORMES; HAEMATOPUS ATER;

EID: 0001506399     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.1961     Document Type: Article

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