Molecular phylogeny of African bush-shrikes and allies: Tracing the biogeographic history of an explosive radiation of corvoid birds

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-105

  Fuchs, Jérôme ^a,b   Irestedt, Martin ^c   Fjeldså, Jon ^d   Couloux, Arnaud ^e   Pasquet, Eric ^f,g   Bowie, Rauri C K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^f Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^g MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Dispersal; Malaconotidea; Multi locus phylogeny; Radiation

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; CERTHIIDAE; CORVOIDEA; LANIIDAE; MACHAERIRHYNCHUS; MALACONOTINAE; MYA; PITYRIASIS (BIRD); PLATYSTEIRIDAE;

EID: 84860584447     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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