Polyphyly of the genus Apalis and a new generic name for the species pulchra and ruwenzorii

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 756-765

  Nguembock, Billy ^a   Fjeldså, Jon ^b   Couloux, Arnaud ^c   Cruaud, Corinne ^c   Pasquet, Eric ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

Author keywords

African forest warblers; Cisticolidae; Molecular markers; Monophyly; Oreolais; Polyphyly; Taxonomic re evaluation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; SONGBIRD; TAXONOMY;

APALIS; APALIS PULCHRA; APALIS RUWENZORII; APALIS THORACICA; CISTICOLIDAE; SCHISTOLAIS; THORACICA; UROLAIS;

EID: 50849138915     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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