Systematics within Gyps vultures: A clade at risk

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Johnson, Jeff A ^a,b   Lerner, Heather R L ^b   Rasmussen, Pamela C ^c   Mindell, David P ^b  

^a THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTORY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; RISK; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY;

GYPS; GYPS AFRICANUS; GYPS BENGALENSIS; GYPS COPROTHERES; GYPS FULVUS; GYPS HIMALAYENSIS; GYPS INDICUS; GYPS RUEPPELLII; GYPS TENUIROSTRIS;

EID: 33748741161     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-65     Document Type: Article

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