Multiple losses of flight and recent speciation in steamer ducks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1737, 2012, Pages 2339-2346

  Fulton, Tara L ^a   Letts, Brandon ^a   Shapiro, Beth ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatidae; Bird; Evolution; Flightlessness; Historic DNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANAS; ANATIDAE; AVES; TACHYERES;

ENOLASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MYOGLOBIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCK; EVOLUTION; FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS); FLYING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DUCKS; FALKLAND ISLANDS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOGLOBIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84865583733     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2599     Document Type: Article

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