Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of Charadriiformes genera: Multigene evidence for the Cretaceous origin of at least 14 clades of shorebirds

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-210

  Baker, Allan J ^a,b   Pereira, Sérgio L ^a   Paton, Tara A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charadriiformes; Divergence times; Molecular clock; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; MASS EXTINCTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; WADER;

ARTICLE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

CHARADRII; CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIIFORMES; HAEMATOPODIDAE; JACANIDAE; MYA; PINGUINUS; PLUVIANUS; SCOLOPACIDAE; TURNICIDAE;

EID: 34548499987     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0606     Document Type: Article

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