The division of the major songbird radiation into Passerida and 'core Corvoidea' (Aves: Passeriformes) - The species tree vs. gene trees

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 305-313

  Irestedt, Martin ^a   Ohlson, Jan I ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALLAEATIDAE; CORVOIDEA; MELANOCHARITIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIDA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 42149085838     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: 14636409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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