The evolutionary radiation of modern birds (Neornithes): Reconciling molecules, morphology and the fossil record

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 153-177

  Dyke, Gareth J ^a   Van Tuinen, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aves; Cladistics; Cretaceous Tertiary (K T) boundary; Divergence; Molecular clocks; Phylogeny; Systematics

Indexed keywords

AVES; NEORNITHES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042779084     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00118.x     Document Type: Review

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