Historical biogeography and speciation in the Neotropical highlands: Molecular phylogenetics of the jay genus Cyanolyca

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 618-632

  Bonaccorso, Elisa ^a,b  

^a Dept of Ecol Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Allopatric speciation; Ancestral area; Andes; Biogeography; Cyanolyca; Hypothesis testing; Neotropical mountains; New World jays

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CORVIDAE; CYANOLYCA; CYANOLYCA CUCULLATA; CYANOLYCA PULCHRA;

EID: 60449087137     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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