Living with the genetic signature of Miocene induced change: Evidence from the phylogeographic structure of the endemic angulate tortoise Chersina angulata

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 915-926

  Daniels, Savel R ^a   Hofmeyr, Margaretha D ^b   Henen, Brian T ^b   Crandall, Keith A ^c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; mtDNA loci; Nested clade analyses

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA; CHERSINA ANGULATA; REPTILIA;

EID: 36049049401     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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