A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2008-06-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1157704PMID 18583609
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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