A phylogeny of Darwin's finches based on microsatellite DNA length variation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1417, 1999, Pages 321-329

  Petren, Kenneth ^a   Grant, B Rosemary ^a   Grant, Peter R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cocos; Dinucleotide; Galapagos; Phylogenetic; Simple sequence repeats

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; DINUCLEOTIDE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; PHYLOGENY;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIRD; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AVES; CACTOSPIZA; CAMARHYNCHUS; CERTHIDEA; CERTHIDEA OLIVACEA; COCOS; FRINGILLIDAE; GEOSPIZA; PLATYSPIZA CRASSIROSTRIS;

EID: 0033593958     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0641     Document Type: Article

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