Molecular systematics and evolutionary history of akalats (Genus Sheppardia): A pre-pleistocene radiation in a group of African forest birds

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 74-83

  Roy, Michael S ^a   Sponer, Renate ^a   Fjeldså, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Montane speciation; mtDNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; GENETIC MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTRASPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOPHYLY; PHYLOGENY; TROPICS;

SHEPPARDIA; SHEPPARDIA AEQUATORIALIS; SHEPPARDIA BOCAGEI; SHEPPARDIA CYORNITHOPSIS; SHEPPARDIA GUNNINGI; SHEPPARDIA LOWEI; SHEPPARDIA MONTANA;

EID: 0035150953     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2000.0862     Document Type: Article

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