Ice sheets promote speciation in boreal birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1551, 2004, Pages 1881-1887

  Weir, Jason T ^a   Schluter, Dolph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal phylogeography; Glacial refugia; Pleistocene glaciation; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BOREAL FOREST; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BIRD; FAUNA; GEOLOGICAL TIME; ICE AGE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES REFUGE; TAIGA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AVES;

ICE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CLIMATE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; ICE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 6944229323     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2803     Document Type: Article

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