The mitochondrial and nuclear genetic homogeneity of the phenotypically diverse Darwin's ground finches

Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1553-1563

  Freeland, Joanna R ^a,b   Boag, Peter T ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Control region; Darwin's finches; Geospiza; Hybridization; ITS 1; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AVIAN GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEITY; HYBRIDIZATION;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; GEOSPIZA;

EID: 0032695376     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1999.tb05418.x     Document Type: Article

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