Going to extremes: Contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of new world passerine birds

Systematic Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 298-320

  Keith Barker, F ^a   Burns, Kevin J ^b   Klicka, John ^c   Lanyon, Scott M ^a   Lovette, Irby J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CYTOCHROMES B; GENETIC SPECIATION; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

EID: 84873586271     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys094     Document Type: Article

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