Systematic placement of an enigmatic Southeast Asian taxon Eupetes macrocerus and implications for the biogeography of a main songbird radiation, the Passerida

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-326

  Jønsson, Knud A ^a   Fjeldså, Jon ^a   Ericson, Per G P ^b   Irestedt, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Eupetes; Oscine; Phylogeny; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EOCENE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; SONGBIRD; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUPETES MACROCERUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ASIA; BORNEO; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MALAY PENINSULA; NEW GUINEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

AVES; CHAETOPS; EUPETES; EUPETES MACROCERUS; PASSERI; PASSERIDA; PICATHARTES; PTILORRHOA;

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MYOGLOBIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOGLOBIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38449099455     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0054     Document Type: Article

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