Phylogeographic patterns of trans-Amazonian vicariants and Amazonian biogeography: The Neotropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus complex) as an example

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1296-1312

  Adrian Quijada Mascarenas J ^a,b   Ferguson, Julia E ^b   Pook, Catharine E ^b   Salomão, Maria Da Graça ^c   Thorpe, Roger S ^b   Wüster, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Crotalus durissus; Molecular phylogeny; Neotropical biogeography; Phylogeography; Pleistocene; Trans Amazon vicariance

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; RAINFOREST; SNAKE; TOPOLOGY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VICARIANCE;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; GUYANA; MATO GROSSO; RORAIMA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CROTALUS DURISSUS;

EID: 34447625689     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01707.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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