Intergeneric relationships of the New World jays inferred from cytochrome b gene sequences

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 490-502

  De Los Monteros, Alejandro Espinosa ^a   Cracraft, Joel ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

biogeography; Corvidae; cytochrome b gene; New World jays; phylogenetic analysis; total evidence analysis

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA; CALOCITTA; CORVIDAE; CYANOCITTA; CYANOCORAX; CYANOLYCA; GYMNORHINUS; GYMNORHINUS CYANOCEPHALUS; NUCIFRAGA; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 0343488424     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369955     Document Type: Article

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