What is not a bird of paradise? Molecular and morphological evidence places Macgregoria in the Meliphagidae and the Cnemophilinae near the base of the corvoid tree

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1440, 2000, Pages 233-241

  Cracraft, Joel ^a   Feinstein, Julie ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cnemophilinae; Corvida; Macgregoria; Meliphagoidea; Molecular systematics; Paradisaeidae

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES; CAESALPINIA GILLIESII; CORVIDA; CORVOIDEA; MACGREGORIA; MELIPHAGIDAE; MELIPOTES; PARADISAEIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; STRELITZIA REGINAE;

EID: 0034615142     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0992     Document Type: Article

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