Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 148-155

  Bickford, David ^a   Lohman, David J ^a   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Ng, Peter K L ^a   Meier, Rudolf ^a   Winker, Kevin ^b   Ingram, Krista K ^c   Das, Indraneil ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^c Colgate University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; SIBLING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICE SITES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33847041452     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.11.004     Document Type: Review

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