Examining basal avian divergences with mitochondrial sequences: Model complexity, taxon sampling, and sequence length

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 614-625

  Braun, Edward L ^a   Kimball, Rebecca T ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0036700155     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150290102294     Document Type: Article

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