Hawaiian Honeycreeper Explosion: Monophyletic Origins of Nectivorous Honeycreeper Beak Morphologies

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The goal of this study was to determine if the primary nectarivorous species of Hawai’ian Honeycreepers were a monophyletic group. A well supported phylogeny, generated using cytB of the mitochondrial genome, indicates a resolved clade of nectivore honeycreepers distinct from other lineages

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