Phylogeographic concordance in the southeastern United States: The flatwoods salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum, as a test case

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 415-429

  Pauly, Gregory B ^a,c   Piskurek, Oliver ^a,b   Shaffer, H Bradley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma bishopi; Ambystoma cingulatum; Amphibian decline; Apalachicola River; Conservation genetics; Fall Line

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AMBYSTOMA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AMBYSTOMA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; ISOENZYMES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA CINGULATUM; AMPHIBIA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 33846103887     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03149.x     Document Type: Article

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