Speciational history of Australian grass finches (Poephila) inferred from thirty gene trees

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2033-2047

  Jennings, W Bryan ^a   Edwards, Scott V ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral population size; Anonymous loci; Coalescent theory; Historical demography; Multiple loci; Population divergence time

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DIVERGENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; MYA; POEPHILA; POEPHILA ACUTICAUDA; POEPHILA CINCTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 25644452054     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01072.x     Document Type: Article

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