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Phylogeny and comparative biogeography of Pionopsitta parrots and Pteroglossus toucans.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Aug 2005
Eberhard Jessica R, Bermingham Eldredge
Abstract excerpt
Studies of Neotropical birds, and their distributions and areas of endemism, in particular, have been central in the formulation of hypotheses proposed to explain the high species diversity in the Neotropics. We used mtDNA sequence data (ATPase 6 and 8, COI, and cyt b) to reconstruct the species-level phylogenies for two genera, Pionopsitta (Aves: Psittacidae) and Pteroglossus (Aves: Ramphastidae), compare our...
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