Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies reveal a complex evolutionary history in the Australasian robins (Passeriformes: Petroicidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 726-738

  Christidis, Les ^a,b   Irestedt, Martin ^c   Rowe, Dianne ^d   Boles, Walter E ^e   Norman, Janette A ^b,f  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^f MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australasian robins; Australian songbirds; Avian biogeography; Avian phylogenetics; Avian systematics; Ecology; Petroicidae

Indexed keywords

CONCATENATED DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, CONCATENATED; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMALOCICHLA; AVES; DRYMODES; EOPSALTRIA; EOPSALTRIA AUSTRALIS; EOPSALTRIA FLAVIVENTRIS; EUGERYGONE; HETEROMYIAS; HETEROMYIAS ALBISPECULARIS; MELANODRYAS; MELANODRYAS CUCULLATA; MICROECA; MICROECA FLAVIGASTER; MONACHELLA; PACHYCEPHALOPSIS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PENEOTHELLO; PETROICA; PETROICIDAE; POECILODRYAS; TREGELLASIA; TREGELLASIA LEUCOPS;

EID: 80055110784     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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