Speciation in chestnut-shouldered fairy-wrens (Malurus spp.) and rapid phenotypic divergence in variegated fairy-wrens (Malurus lamberti): A multilocus approach

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 668-678

  McLean, A J ^a   Toon, A ^c   Schmidt, D J ^a   Joseph, L ^b   Hughes, J M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anonymous loci; Australia; MtDNA; Nuclear markers; Phylogenetics; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

AVIAN PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTICIPATION, GENETIC; AVIAN PROTEINS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRDS;

MALURIDAE; MALURUS; MALURUS AMABILIS; MALURUS LAMBERTI; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84859823035     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.016     Document Type: Article

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