Conservation genetics of insular Podarcis lizards using partial cytochrome b sequences

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1407-1411

  Castilla, A M ^a,b   Fernandez Pedrosa V ^c   Backeljau, T ^d   Gonzalez A ^c   Latorre, A ^c   Moya, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Cytochrome b; Mediterranean islands; Podarcis hispanica atrata; Population genetic structure

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIANCE; HAPLOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PODARCIS ATRATA; POPULATION GENETICS; SPAIN;

PODARCIS;

EID: 0031657726     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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