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Molecular phylogeny and morphological change in the Psittacula parakeets.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Apr 2004
Groombridge Jim J, Jones Carl G, Nichols Richard A, Carlton Mark, Bruford Michael W
Abstract excerpt
We reconstruct a phylogeny of the African and Asian Psittacula parakeets using approximately 800bp of mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence to examine their evolutionary relationships in reference to their head plumage and major morphological tail innovations. Our phylogeny identifies three groups, whose distinctiveness is also apparent from their possession of three different head plumage characters: a neck ring,...
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