A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 941-952

  Kearns, Anna M ^a,c   Joseph, Leo ^b   Cook, Lyn G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

*BEAST; Australia; Climate change; Cracticidae; Incomplete lineage sorting; New Guinea

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CORVIDAE; CRACTICIDAE; CRACTICUS; CRACTICUS MENTALIS; CRACTICUS TORQUATUS; GYMNORHINA TIBICEN; PELTOPS; STREPERA; TIBICEN;

EID: 84873102595     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.020     Document Type: Article

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