Phylogenetic relationships of the mockingbirds and thrashers (Aves: Mimidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 219-229

  Lovette, Irby J ^a   Arbogast, Brian S ^b   Curry, Robert L ^c   Zink, Robert M ^d   Botero, Carlos A ^e   Sullivan, John P ^a   Talaba, Amanda L ^a   Harris, Rebecca B ^a   Rubenstein, Dustin R ^f   Ricklefs, Robert E ^g   Bermingham, Eldredge ^h  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^h SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Classification; Galapagos; Mimidae; Mockingbird; Phylogeny; Thrasher

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; CINCLOCERTHIA; DUMETELLA; MARGAROPS; MELANOPTILA; MELANOTIS; MIMIDAE; MIMODES; MIMODES GRAYSONI; MIMUS; MIMUS GUNDLACHII; MIMUS LONGICAUDATUS; NESOMIMUS; NESOMIMUS PARVULUS; OREOSCOPTES; RAMPHOCINCLUS; TOXOSTOMA; TOXOSTOMA CURVIROSTRE; TOXOSTOMA OCELLATUM;

EID: 84858069125     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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