The peninsular archipelago of Baja California: A thousand kilometers of tree lizard genetics

Herpetologica

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 369-381

  Gustavo Aguirre, L ^a   Morafka, David J ^b   Murphy, Robert W ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baja California; Biogeography; Gene flow; Isozyme electrophoresis; Systematics; Urosaurus

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; LIZARD; POPULATION GENETICS;

MEXICO;

UROSAURUS LAHTELAI; UROSAURUS MICROSCUTATUS; UROSAURUS NIGRICAUDUS;

EID: 0344980435     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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