Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a "great speciator"

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1863-1868

  Moyle, Robert G ^a   Filardi, Christopher E ^b,c   Smith, Catherine E ^d   Diamond, Jared ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification rate; Evolution; Speciation; White eye; Zosterops

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

AVES; VERTEBRATA; ZOSTEROPIDAE; ZOSTEROPS;

EID: 60549089187     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809861105     Document Type: Article

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