A phylogeny of the tinamous (Aves: Palaeognathiformes) based on integumentary characters

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 959-979

  Bertelli, Sara ^a   Giannini, Norberto P ^a   Goloboff, Pablo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Integumentary characters; Sankoff parsimony; Supertrees; Tinamidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; TINAMIDAE; TINAMIFORMES;

EID: 0036949383     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150290102492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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