Armadillos exhibit less genetic polymorphism in North America than in South America: Nuclear and mitochondrial data confirm a founder effect in Dasypus novemcinctus (Xenarthra)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1743-1748

  Huchon, Dorothée ^a   Delsuc, Frédéric ^a   Catzeflis, François M ^a   Douzery, Emmanuel J P ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Allozymes; Control region (D loop); Dasypus novemcinctus (nine banded armadillo); Founder effect; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOUNDER EFFECT; FRENCH GUIANA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARMADILLO; DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS KAPPLERI; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; EDENTATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033213204     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.1999.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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