An ancient African radiation of corvoid birds (Aves: Passeriformes) detected by mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-385

  Fuchs, Jérôme ^a   Fjeldså, Jon ^b   Pasquet, Eric ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORVOIDEA; HEMIPUS; HYLA; MALACONOTINAE; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PHILENTOMA; PLATYSTEIRIDAE; SERPENTES; TEPHRODORNIS; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745108958     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: 14636409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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