Prehistoric inter-archipelago trading of Polynesian tree snails leaves a conservation legacy

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1627, 2007, Pages 2907-2914

  Lee, Taehwan ^a   Burch, John B ^a   Coote, Trevor ^b   Fontaine, Benoît ^c   Gargominy, Olivier ^c   Pearce Kelly, Paul ^d   Foighil, Diarmaid Ó ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b International Partulid Conservation Programme   (French Polynesia)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Molecular phylogeny; Oceania; Partula; Prehistoric exchange network

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CONSERVATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; PREHISTORIC; SHELL; SNAIL; TRADE;

ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CELL LINEAGE; COOK ISLANDS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYNESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAIL; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRAL ISLANDS; COOK ISLANDS; FRENCH POLYNESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; TAHITI; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

EUGLANDINA ROSEA; GASTROPODA; PARTULA; PARTULA CLARA; PARTULIDAE; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 35848961253     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1009     Document Type: Article

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