Contact zones and species limits: Hybridization between lineages of the California newt, Taricha torosa, in the Southern Sierra Nevada

Herpetologica

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 332-350

  Kuchta, Shawn R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alloyzme; Contact zone; Evolutionary species concept; General metapopulation lineage concept; Hybrid zone; Hybridization; MtDNA; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Taricha

Indexed keywords

ALLOZYME; AMPHIBIAN; CLINE; COLOR MORPH; CONTACT ZONE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HYBRID ZONE; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SELECTION;

CALIFORNIA; KAWEAH RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; TULARE COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

SALAMANDRIDAE; TARICHA; TARICHA TOROSA;

EID: 35549011387     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[332:CZASLH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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