Combined nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences resolve generic relationships within the Cracidae (Galliformes, Aves)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 946-958

  Pereira, Sérgio L ^a,b,c   Baker, Allan J ^b,c   Wajntal, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combined data; Cracidae; Divergence time; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular phylogeny; Nuclear DNA

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; CRACIDAE; GALLIFORMES; MYA; OREOPHASIS DERBIANUS;

EID: 0346525115     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150290102519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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