Phylogeny and Diversification of Modern Passerines

Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 235-256

  Barker, F Keith ^a,b  

^a Department of Ecology Evolution and Behavior ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin's finches of Galapagos and the Hawaiian honeycreepers; DNA DNA hybridization data and monophyly of the Passeriformes; Monophyly, relationships and inordinate diversity of passerine birds; Near biogeographic parallelism in two clades of passerines, biogeography of oscine diversification and questions on lineage patterns of diversity; Nonuniformity of avian lineage diversities; Passerines (Aves, Order Passeriformes) over half of modern avian species diversity; Phylogeny and diversification of modern Passerines; Relationships and diversity patterns within passeriformes DNA DNA hybridization data; Relationships of passerines to other birds areas of controversy; Use of DNA DNA hybridization in phylogenetics its acme in 1980s to early 1990s, application in mammalian and avian systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886188172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990475.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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