A passerine bird's evolution corroborates the geologic history of the island of New Guinea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Deiner, Kristy ^a,b   Lemmon, Alan R ^c   Mack, Andrew L ^d   Fleischer, Robert C ^e   Dumbacher, John P ^a,e  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT; HISTORY; INTRON; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LAND USE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SUBSPECIES; VICARIANCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

AVES; COLLURICINCLA MEGARHYNCHA; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOLOGY; NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79955868667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019479     Document Type: Article

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