Phylogeography of Balkan wall lizard (Podarcis taurica) and its relatives inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2433-2443

  Poulakakis, N ^a,c   Lymberakis, P ^a,c   Valakos, E ^b   Pafilis, P ^b   Zouros, E ^a   Mylonas, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Natural History Museum of Crete   (Greece)

Author keywords

Balkan Peninsula; Molecular clock; Molecular phylogeny; mtDNA markers; Podarcis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LACERTIDAE; PODARCIS; PODARCIS ERHARDII; PODARCIS MELISELLENSIS; PODARCIS MILENSIS; PODARCIS PELOPONNESIACA; PODARCIS TAURICA; REPTILIA; SAURIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 21244497347     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02588.x     Document Type: Article

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