Range-wide phylogeography of a temperate lizard, the five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 183-194

  Howes, Briar J ^a   Lindsay, Bethany ^a   Lougheed, Stephen C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eumeces fasciatus; Five lined skink; Microsatellites; mtDNA; Phylogeography; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

EUMECES FASCIATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33745177780     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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