Podargiform affinities of the enigmatic fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the early diversification of strisores ("Caprimulgiformes" + Apodiformes)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Nesbitt, Sterling J ^a   Ksepka, Daniel T ^b,c   Clarke, Julia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MYC PROTEIN; RAG1 PROTEIN;

AEGOTHELIDAE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APODIFORMES; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BIRD; CAPRIMULGIFORMES; CLADISTICS; EOCENE; EUROFLUVIOVIRIDANS; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FLUVIOVIRIDAVIS PLATYRHAMPHUS; FOSSIL ANIMAL; MANDIBLE; MASILLAPODARGUS LONGIPES; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYCTIBIIDAE; PALATE; PODARGIDAE; PODARGIFORMES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STEATORNITHIDAE; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PELVIS; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; SKULL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; PELVIS; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; SKULL; TIME FACTORS; WYOMING;

EID: 82355170190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026350     Document Type: Article

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