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An endemic radiation of Malagasy songbirds is revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequence data.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jun 2001
Cibois A, Slikas B, Schulenberg T S, Pasquet E
Abstract excerpt
The bird fauna of Madagascar includes a high proportion of endemic species, particularly among passerine birds (Aves: Passeriformes). The endemic genera of Malagasy songbirds are not allied obviously with any African or Asiatic taxa, and their affinities have been debated since the birds first were described. We used mitochondrial sequence data to estimate the relationships of 13 species of endemic Malagasy...
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