Quaternary speciation in the Neotropics

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4257-4259

  Rull, Valentí ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate forcing; DNA phylogenies; Evolution; Neotropics; Quaternary; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FRENCH GUIANA; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; NOTE; PARROT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETIC SPECIATION; PARROTS; PHYLOGENY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33750220338     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03052.x     Document Type: Note

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