Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 380-392

  Sangster, George ^a,b   Alström, Per ^c   Forsmark, Emma ^d   Olsson, Urban ^d  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Lactate dehydrogenase intron 3; Muscicapidae; Muscicapoidea; Myoglobin intron 2; Ornithine decarboxylase introns 6 and 7; Passeriformes; Turdidae

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; CYANOPTILA; CYORNIS; ENICURUS; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; EUMYIAS; FICEDULA; HEINRICHIA CALLIGYNA; MONTICOLA; MUSCICAPIDAE; NILTAVA; OENANTHE (AVES); PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PHOENICURUS; RHINOMYIAS; RHINOMYIAS INSIGNIS; SAXICOLA; TURDIDAE;

EID: 77956227788     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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