Terrestrial versus aquatic phenotypes correlate with hydrological predictability of habitats in a semiterrestrial salamander (Urodela, Plethodontidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 227-238

  Camp, Carlos D ^a   Huestis, Diana L ^b   Marshall, Jeremy L ^b  

^a PIEDMONT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Community; Desmognathus; Moisture; Terrestrial; Variation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMPHIBIAN; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CENOZOIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVOLUTION; HABITAT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOISTURE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; STREAM; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOLERANCE;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; CAUDATA; DESMOGNATHINAE; DESMOGNATHUS; DESMOGNATHUS OCOEE; PLETHODONTIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 34447099975     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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