Recent evolutionary history of the fox sparrows (Genus: Passerella)

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 522-527

  Zink, Robert M ^a   Weckstein, Jason D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EVOLUTION; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLUMAGE;

AVES; CANIDAE; PASSERELLA; PASSERELLA ILIACA; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037803729     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090205     Document Type: Article

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