Phylogeography of the spotted skink (Oligosoma lineoocellatum) and green skink (O. chloronoton) species complex (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in New Zealand reveals pre-Pleistocene divergence

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 729-739

  Greaves, Stephanie N J ^a   Chapple, David G ^a   Gleeson, Dianne M ^b   Daugherty, Charles H ^a   Ritchie, Peter A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIZARDS; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION;

LACERTILIA; OLIGOSOMA LINEOOCELLATUM; SCINCIDAE;

EID: 35148879206     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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