| molecular phylogeography reveals island colonization history and diversification of western indian ocean sunbirds (nectarinia: nectariniidae). | we constructed a phylogenetic hypothesis for western indian ocean sunbirds (nectarinia) and used this to investigate the geographic pattern of their diversification among the islands of the indian ocean. a total of 1309 bp of mitochondrial sequence data was collected from the island sunbird taxa of the western indian ocean region, combined with sequence data from a selection of continental (african and asian) sunbirds. topological and branch length information combined with estimated divergence ... | 2003 | 12967608 |