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Polyphyly of the hawk genera Leucopternis and Buteogallus (Aves, Accipitridae): multiple habitat shifts during the Neotropical buteonine diversification.
BMC evolutionary biology - 7 Feb 2006
Amaral Fabio S Raposo do, Miller Matthew J, Silveira Luís Fábio, Bermingham Eldredge, Wajntal Anita
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BACKGROUND: The family Accipitridae (hawks, eagles and Old World vultures) represents a large radiation of predatory birds with an almost global distribution, although most species of this family occur in the Neotropics. Despite great morphological and ecological diversity, the evolutionary relationships in the family have been poorly explored at all taxonomic levels. Using sequences from four mitochondrial genes...
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