Are lowland rainforests really evolutionary museums? Phylogeography of the green hylia (Hylia prasina) in the Afrotropics

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 178-184

  Marks, Ben D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Diversification; Guineo Congolian; Hylia prasina; Lowland; Phylogeography; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AVES; HYLIA; HYLIA PRASINA; SYLVIIDAE;

EID: 76849094299     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.027     Document Type: Article

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