Molecular systematics of a speciose, cosmopolitan songbird genus: Defining the limits of, and relationships among, the Turdus thrushes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 422-434

  Voelker, Gary ^a   Rohwer, Sievert ^b   Bowie, Rauri C K ^c   Outlaw, Diana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Systematics; Turdinae; Turdus

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; CICHLHERMINIA; NESOCICHLA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PLATYCICHLA; PSOPHOCICHLA; TURDUS; TURDUS THRUSHES;

EID: 33751016835     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.07.016     Document Type: Article

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