Delimiting species using DNA and morphological variation and discordant species limits in spiny lizards (Sceloporus)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-91

  Wiens, John J ^a,b   Penkrot, Tonya A ^b,c  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular systematics; Morphological systematics; Nested clade analysis; Phylogeography; Population genetics; Species limits; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; LIZARDS; MEXICO; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACHILLEA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS JARROVII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0036005519     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351502753475880     Document Type: Article

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