The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-72

  Palo, Jukka U ^a,b   Väinölä, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Glacial relicts; Paratethys; Phocidae; Phylogeography; Pleistocene glaciations; Pusa

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; GENE; GLACIAL HISTORY; HABITAT; PALEOECOLOGY; PINNIPED; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; MYA; PHOCA CASPICA; PHOCA HISPIDA; PHOCA SIBIRICA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOCIDAE; PUSA;

EID: 33646236334     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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