Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 108; no. 6; pp. 2328 - 2333
• Main Authors: Jønsson, Knud A., Fabre, Pierre-Henri, Ricklefs, Robert E., Fjeldså, Jon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 08.02.2011; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Animals; Archipelagoes; Archipelagos; Australia; Base Sequence; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biological Sciences; Biological taxonomies; Birds; Colonization; Continents; Eocene; Evolution; Forest habitats; forests; habitats; Islands; Macroecology; Molecular Sequence Data; Nonnative species; Oligocene; Papua New Guinea; Passeriformes; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Songbirds; Songbirds - physiology; South East Asia; Taxa; Australia; Papua New Guinea; Southeast Asia; South East Asia

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