Tracing an invasion: Landbridges, refugia, and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1095-1108

  Wüster, Wolfgang ^a   Ferguson, Julia E ^a   Quijada Mascareñas, J Adrian ^a   Pook, Catharine E ^a   Salomão, Maria Da Graça ^b   Thorpe, Roger S ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Biogeography; Crotalus durissus; Isthmus of Panam ; Phylogeography; Pleistocene refugia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; CROTALUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 16344393344     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02471.x     Document Type: Article

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