Prioritizing species conservation: Does the Cape Verde kite exist?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1570, 2005, Pages 1365-1371

  Johnson, Jeff A ^a,b   Watson, Richard T ^a   Mindell, David P ^b  

^a THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Reciprocal monophyly; Species; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITIZATION; RAPTOR; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FALCONIFORMES; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE VERDE; MACARONESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AVES; MILVUS; MILVUS MIGRANS; MILVUS MILVUS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FALCONIFORMES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 24044555585     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3098     Document Type: Article

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