Signatures of seaway closures and founder dispersal in the phylogeny of a circumglobally distributed seahorse lineage

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Teske, Peter R ^a,b   Hamilton, Healy ^c   Matthee, Conrad A ^b   Barker, Nigel P ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALIBRATION; CLADOGENESIS; FISH; GENETIC DISTANCE; INDIAN OCEAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEA; SEAHORSE; TELEOST; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VICARIANCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HIPPOCAMPINAE; TELEOSTEI;

CYTOCHROME B; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S7; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROMES B; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 34548716021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-138     Document Type: Article

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