Phylogenetic affinities of Comoroan and East African day geckos (genus Phelsuma): Multiple natural colonisations, introductions and island radiations

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 685-692

  Rocha, Sara ^a,b,c   Posada, David ^c   Carretero, Miguel A ^a   Harris, D James ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 12S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; LIZARD; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

PHELSUMA;

EID: 34247628885     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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