Dispersal, vicariance, and clocks: Historical biogeography and speciation in a cosmopolitan passerine genus (Anthus: Motacillidae)

Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1536-1552

  Voelker, Gary ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthus; Dispersal; Historical biogeography; Molecular clock; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; PASSERINE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VICARIANCE;

ANTHUS; AVES; GALLIFORMES; MOTACILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032695683     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1999.tb05417.x     Document Type: Article

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