The great tit (Parus major) - A misclassified ring species

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 153-174

  Päckert, Martin ^a,b   Martens, Jochen ^a   Eck, Siegfried ^c   Nazarenko, Alexander A ^d   Valchuk, Olga P ^d   Petri, Bernd ^a   Veith, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Hybridization; Introgression; Taxonomy; Territorial song

Indexed keywords

HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; PASSERINE; TAXONOMY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SIBERIA; WORLD;

AVES; MYA; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 26844511185     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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