Are subspecies useful in evolutionary and conservation biology?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1590, 2006, Pages 1049-1053

  Phillimore, Albert B ^a   Owens, Ian P F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Islands; Monophyly; Phylogenetics; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CONSERVATION; DIVERGENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; META-ANALYSIS; NEARCTIC REGION; PALEARCTIC REGION; PHYLOGENETICS; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOWL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSPECIES; ANIMAL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33746698481     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3425     Document Type: Article

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