A North American stem turaco, and the complex biogeographic history of modern birds
Abstract Background Earth’s lower latitudes boast the majority of extant avian species-level and higher-order diversity, with many deeply diverging clades restricted to vestiges of Gondwana. However, palaeontological analyses reveal that many avian crown clades with restricted extant distributions h...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-06-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-018-1212-3 |