Out of Amazonia again and again: Episodic crossing of the Andes promotes diversification in a lowland forest flycatcher

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1639, 2008, Pages 1133-1142

  Miller, Matthew J ^a,b   Bermingham, Eldredge ^a   Klicka, John ^c   Escalante, Patricia ^d   Do Amaral, Fabio S Raposo ^e   Weir, Jason T ^f   Winker, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ancestral area reconstruction; Andes; Area cladograms; Dispersal; Neotropical phylogeography

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MITOCHONDRION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CLADISTICS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOREST; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT; MIONECTES OLEAGINEUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER PLIOCENE;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; MIONECTES; MIONECTES OLEAGINEUS;

EID: 41649112742     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0015     Document Type: Article

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