The use of DNA divergence to help determine the correlates of evolution of morphological characters

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 524-531

  Thorpe, Roger S ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canary Island lizards; Ecogenesis; Geographic variation; Island evolution; Morphology; mtDNA sequence; Natural selection; Partial Mantel tests; Phylogenesis; Phylogeography; Selective neutrality

Indexed keywords

DNA DIVERGENCE; ISLAND EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CANARY ISLANDS;

GALLOTIA GALLOTI; LACERTIDAE;

EID: 0029730111     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03865.x     Document Type: Article

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