Lack of phylogeographic structure in three widespread Australian birds reinforces emerging challenges in Australian historical biogeography

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 612-624

  Joseph, Leo ^a,b   Wilke, Thomas ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arid zone; Australia; Biogeography; Birds; Differentiation; mtDNA; Phylogeography; Pleistocene; Population expansion

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE EXPANSION; VICARIANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHAGENYS RUFOGULARIS; ARTAMIDAE; ARTAMUS CINEREUS; AVES; LICHENOSTOMUS VIRESCENS; MELIPHAGIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33947653226     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01635.x     Document Type: Article

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