The role of subspecies in obscuring avian biological diversity and misleading conservation policy

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1539, 2004, Pages 561-564

  Zink, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Mitochondrial DNA; Reciprocal monophyly; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SUBSPECIES;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOWL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMIC RANK;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 1442291633     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2617     Document Type: Article

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