Is homoplasy or lineage sorting the source of incongruent mtDNA and nuclear gene trees in the stiff-tailed ducks (Nomonyx-Oxyura)?

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-55

  McCracken, Kevin G ^a   Sorenson, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral polymorphism; Homoplasy; Lineage sorting; Nomonyx; Oxyura; Oxyurinae; Stiff tailed ducks; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCK; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DUCKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 15944416738     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150590910249     Document Type: Article

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