Relationships of the extinct moa-nalos, flightless Hawaiian waterfowl, based on ancient DNA

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1434, 1999, Pages 2187-2193

  Sorenson, Michael D ^a,d   Cooper, Alan ^a   Paxinos, Ellen E ^a   Quinn, Thomas W ^b   James, Helen F ^c   Olson, Storrs L ^c   Fleischer, Robert C ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatidae; Anseriformes; Ducks; Fossils; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular systematics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; RELATEDNESS; WATERFOWL;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCK; FOSSIL; FOWL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANSER SP.; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; GALLIFORMES; HAWAIIA;

EID: 0033533957     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0907     Document Type: Article

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