Diversification of Neoaves: Integration of molecular sequence data and fossils

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 543-547

  Ericson, Per G P ^a   Anderson, Cajsa L ^b   Britton, Tom ^c   Elzanowski, Andrzej ^d   Johansson, Ulf S ^e   Källersjö, Mari ^a   Ohlson, Jan I ^a,c   Parsons, Thomas J ^f   Zuccon, Dario ^a   Mayr, Gerald ^g  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f International Commission on Missing Persons   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^g SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Divergence times; Fossils; Molecular clock; Neoaves; Nuclear DNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIRD; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIGRAPHY;

AVES;

EID: 33845585115     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0523     Document Type: Article

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