Pre-pleistocene refugia and differentiation between populations of the caucasian salamander (Mertensiella caucasica)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 414-422

  Tarkhnishvili, David N ^a   Thorpe, Roger S ^a   Arntzen, J W ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Caucasus; Cytochrome b gene; Historical biogeography; Mertensiella caucasica; Morphological stasis; Multivariate morphometrics; Phylogeny; RAPD's

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; MERTENSIELLA CAUCASICA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0034034080     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0718     Document Type: Article

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