Tertiary climate change and the diversification of the Amazonian gecko genus Gonatodes (Sphaerodactylidae, Squamata)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 269-277

  Gamble, Tony ^a   Simons, Andrew M ^a   Colli, Guarino R ^b   Vitt, Laurie J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Partitioned Bayesian analysis; Penalized Likelihood; South America; Sphaerodactylidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LIZARD; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLIMATE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; AVES; GEKKONIDAE; GONATODES; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 37249093978     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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