Evidence for a recent origin of penguins

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Subramanian, Sankar ^a   Beans Picón, Gabrielle ^b   Swaminathan, Siva K ^c   Millar, Craig D ^d   Lambert, David M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c Environment Protection Training and Research Institute   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change; Penguin evolution; Rate of evolution

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMON ANCESTRY; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SEABIRD;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; INTRON; PENGUIN; PENGUIN EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATE OF EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PENGUIN EVOLUTION; RATE OF EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSILS; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPHENISCIDAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84891910193     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0748     Document Type: Article

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