Phylogeny of shorebirds, gulls, and alcids (Aves: Charadrii) from the cytochrome-b gene: Parsimony, Bayesian inference, minimum evolution, and quartet puzzling

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 516-526

  Thomas, Gavin H ^a   Wills, Matthew A ^a   Székely, Tamás ^a  

^a University of Bath ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CHARADRII; CICONIIFORMES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 1342311276     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00222-7     Document Type: Article

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