Historical isolation, range expansion, and secondary contact of two highly divergent mitochondrial lineages in spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum)

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1631-1652

  Zamudio, Kelly R ^a   Savage, Wesley K ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Fragmentation; Glaciation; Haplotype tree; Population structure; Suture zones

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; GENETIC STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0043198532     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00370.x     Document Type: Article

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