Mitochondrial markers reveal deep population subdivision in the European protected spider Macrothele calpeiana (Walckenaer, 1805) (Araneae, Hexathelidae)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1147-1162

  Arnedo, Miquel A ^a   Ferrández, Miguel Angel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Sociedad para El Estudio Y la Conservación de Las Arañas ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Betic Rifean region; Iberian Peninsula; Mitochondrial genetic variation; Population fragmentation; Spider conservation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPIDER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARANEAE; DIPLURIDAE; HEXATHELIDAE; MACROTHELE; QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 34547442865     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-006-9270-2     Document Type: Article

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