Evolutionary relationships among copies of feather beta (β) keratin genes from several avian orders

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-475

  Glenn, Travis C ^a,b   French, Jeffrey O ^a   Heincelman, Traci J ^a   Jones, Kenneth L ^b   Sawyer, Roger H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCEDINIDAE; ARDEIDAE; AVES; CICONIIDAE; CICONIIFORMES; COLUMBA; COLUMBIFORMES; CORACIIFORMES; FALCONIFORMES; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; GRUIDAE; GRUIFORMES; PICIDAE; PICIFORMES; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES; RAPTORES; REPTILIA;

EID: 53549123569     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn061     Document Type: Article

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