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Complete mitochondrial genomes of living and extinct pigeons revise the timing of the columbiform radiation

BACKGROUND: Pigeons and doves (Columbiformes) are one of the oldest and most diverse extant lineages of birds. However, the nature and timing of the group’s evolutionary radiation remains poorly resolved, despite recent advances in DNA sequencing and assembly and the growing database of pigeon mitoc...

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Autores principales: Soares, André E. R., Novak, Ben J., Haile, James, Heupink, Tim H., Fjeldså, Jon, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Poinar, Hendrik, Church, George M., Shapiro, Beth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27782796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0800-3