Genetic differentiation reflects geological history in the Azorean land snail, Leptaxis azorica

Heredity

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-247

  Van Riel, P ^a,b   Jordaens, K ^b   Verhagen, R ^b   Frias Martins, A M ^c   Backeljau, T ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Allopatric speciation; Allozymes; Azores islands; Evolutionary rate; Genetic variation; Land snail

Indexed keywords

ALLOZYME; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MORPHOMETRY; SNAIL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMALS; AZORES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; ISOENZYMES; SNAILS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PORTUGAL;

GASTROPODA; HELICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTAXIS; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 0141454849     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800304     Document Type: Article

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