Inter-familial relationships of the shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) based on nuclear DNA sequence data

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Phylogenetic hypotheses of higher-level relationships in the order Charadriiformes based on morphological data, partly disagree with those based on DNA-DNA hybridisation data. So far, these relationships have not been tested by analy...

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Main Authors: Irestedt Martin, Envall Ida, Ericson Per GP, Norman Janette A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2003-07-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/3/16