Inferring the phylogeography and evolutionary history of the splendid fairy-wren Malurus splendens from mitochondrial DNA and spectrophotometry
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A. M. Kearns (correspondence) and M. C. Double, Div. of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]. L. Joseph, Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, GPO Box 284, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. S. V. Edwards, Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ., 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Present address of AMK: School of Integrative Biology, The Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. Present address of MCD: Australian Centre for Applied Marine Mammal Science, Southern Ocean Ecosystems, Australian Government Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania 7050, Australia.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008