Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 53-63

  Burleigh, J Gordon ^a   Kimball, Rebecca T ^a   Braun, Edward L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Phylogeny; Supermatrix

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERI; TETRAPODA;

ANIMAL; BIRD; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84920887826     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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