When vicars meet: A narrow contact zone between morphologically cryptic phylogeographic lineages of the rainforest skink, Carlia rubrigularis

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1536-1548

  Phillips, Ben L ^a,b   Baird, Stuart J E ^a,c   Moritz, Craig ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carlia rubrigularis; Hybrid zone; Likelihood profiles; Phylogeography; Secondary contact; Speciation

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; HYBRID ZONE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; CARLIA; CARLIA RUBRIGULARIS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3543139533     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01734.x     Document Type: Article

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