African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): Molecular systematics of several evolutionary 'enigmas'

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1565, 2005, Pages 849-858

  Beresford, P ^a,d   Barker, F K ^b,c   Ryan, P G ^a   Crowe, T M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Madagascar; Old World warbler; Oscines; Picathartidae

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; GONDWANA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SONGBIRD;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ACROCEPHALUS FAMILIARIS KINGI; AVES; CHAETOPS; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; PASSERIDA; PICATHARTES; PICATHARTIDAE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RAG-1; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 22844449538     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2997     Document Type: Article

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