A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Thomas, Gavin H ^a   Wills, Matthew A ^a   Székely, Tamás ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARADRIIFORMES; CICONIIFORMES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHARADRIIFORMES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 5544226537     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-28     Document Type: Article

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