Inter-familial relationships of the shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) based on nuclear DNA sequence data

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Ericson, Per G P ^a   Envall, Ida ^a   Irestedt, Martin ^a,b   Norman, Janette A ^c  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; BURHINIDAE; CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CICONIIFORMES; HAEMATOPODIDAE; OTIDIDAE; PLUVIALIS;

EID: 2942532721     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-3-16     Document Type: Article

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