Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Alström, Per ^a,b   Hooper, Daniel M ^c   Liu, Yang ^d   Olsson, Urban ^e   Mohan, Dhananjai ^f   Gelang, Magnus ^g   Le Manh, Hung ^h   Zhao, Jian ^d   Lei, Fumin ^a   Price, Trevor D ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^f WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^g SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^h INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Elachura formosa; Old species; Passerida; Spelaeornis formosus; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; NOMENCLATURE; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY; RELICT SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AVES; BOMBYCILLIDAE; PASSERIDA; PASSERIFORMES; PASSEROIDEA; REGULIDAE; SPELAEORNIS FORMOSUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

AVIAN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELACHURA FORMOSA; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OLD SPECIES; PASSERIDA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SONGBIRD; SPELAEORNIS FORMOSUS; TAXONOMY;

ELACHURA FORMOSA; OLD SPECIES; PASSERIDA; SPELAEORNIS FORMOSUS; SYSTEMATICS;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CHINA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84909965134     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1067     Document Type: Article

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