Lineage diversification and historical demography of a montane bird Garrulax elliotii - Implications for the Pleistocene evolutionary history of the eastern Himalayas

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Qu, Yanhua ^a   Luo, Xu ^b   Zhang, Ruiying ^a   Song, Gang ^a   Zou, Fasheng ^c   Lei, Fumin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c South China Institute of Endangered Animals   (China)

Author keywords

diversification; eco subregion; genetic admixture; multiple refugia; Pleistocene glaciations; sky islands

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONNECTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; INTERGLACIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MONTANE FOREST; MOUNTAIN REGION; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GROWTH; REFUGIUM;

HIMALAYAS;

AVES; GARRULAX; GARRULAX ELLIOTII; MYA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79959208403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-174     Document Type: Article

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