Pleistocene effects on North American songbird evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1420, 1999, Pages 695-700

  Klicka, John ^a   Zink, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian speciation; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Pleistocene effects; Recent glacial cycles

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIRD; EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; SONG;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033531736     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0691     Document Type: Article

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