Old taxa on young Islands: A critique of the use of Island age to date Island-endemic clades and calibrate phylogenies

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 204-218

  Heads, Michael ^a  

^a Buffalo Museum of Science   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 79951565662     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq075     Document Type: Article

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