Research article
Single mitochondrial gene barcodes reliably identify sister-species in diverse clades of birds
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* Corresponding author: Erika S Tavares erika.tavares@utoronto.ca
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1 Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada
2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:81 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-81
Published: 9 March 2008Additional files
Additional file 1:
Sister-species differences in COI barcode sequences. Sister-species pairs and sampling, fixed substitutions (fixed subst.), bootstrap support, mean interspecific K2P distances (Dinter), and maximum intraspecific K2P distance within each species (Dintra).
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Additional file 2:
Neighbor-joining tree topology constructed from DNA barcodes of sister species of birds. Neighbor-joining tree topology of ~650 bp of mitochondrial gene COI, under the K2P model and pairwise deletion. File in nexus format, opens in TreeView.
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