Toward resolving deep neoaves phylogeny: Data, signal enhancement, and priors

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-326

  Pratt, Renae C ^a   Gibb, Gillian C ^a   Morgan Richards, Mary ^a   Phillips, Matthew J ^b   Hendy, Michael D ^a   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avian evolution; Down weighting; Hypothesis testing; Mitochondrial genomes; Neoaves; Site stripping

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ALCEDINIDAE; AVES; CUCULIDAE; GEOCOCCYX CALIFORNIANUS; PRUNUS PERSICA; PSITTACIDAE; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TROGON; TYTONIDAE; URODYNAMIS;

EID: 58449087343     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn248     Document Type: Article

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