Phylogenetic and coalescent analysis of three loci suggest that the Water Rail is divisible into two species, Rallus aquaticus and R. indicus

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tavares, Erika S ^a   De Kroon, Gerard Hj ^b   Baker, Allan J ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b University of Toronto ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISJUNCT DISTRIBUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PALEARCTIC REGION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE; VOCALIZATION;

ASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; RALLUS AQUATICUS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77954794504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-226     Document Type: Article

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