Species concepts and the determination of historic gene flow patterns in the Eulemur fulvus (Brown Lemur) complex

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-56

  Wyner, Yael ^a,b   Absher, Robin ^b   Amato, George ^b   Sterling, Eleanor ^b   Stumpf, Rebecca ^c   Rumpler, Yves ^d   Desalle, Rob ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Evolutionary taxonomy; Phylogenetic and biological species concepts; Population aggregation analysis

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; SPECIES CONCEPT;

EULEMUR FULVUS;

EID: 0033007762     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0258     Document Type: Article

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