The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography

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

Volumn 106, Issue 49, 2009, Pages 20646-20651

  Bunce, M ^a   Worthy, T H ^b,c   Phillips, M J ^d   Holdaway, R N ^e   Willerslev, E ^f   Haile, J ^f,g   Shapiro, B ^g,h   Scofield, R P ⁱ   Drummond, A ^j   Kamp, P J J ^k   Cooper, A ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Dinornithiformes; Oligocene drowning; Phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLOPATHY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MIOCENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NEOGENE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOCENE; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATITE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PALAEOGNATHAE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; DINORNITHIFORMES; PALAEOGNATHAE;

EID: 73949145186     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906660106     Document Type: Article

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