Comparative phylogeography of two endemic birds of the Tibetan plateau, the white-rumped snow finch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii) and the Hume's ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 312-326

  Qu, Yanhua ^a   Lei, Fumin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau; Genetic divergence; Pleistocene glaciations; Pleistocene refugia; Postglacial colonization; The Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIBET;

AVES; PSEUDOPODOCES HUMILIS;

EID: 67349251039     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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