Postglacial range expansion from northern refugia by the wood frog, Rana sylvatica

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 867-884

  Lee Yaw, Julie A ^a,c   Irwin, Jason T ^b   Green, David M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Morphological variation; mtDNA; Phylogeography; Postglacial colonization; Rana sylvatica

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; FROG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; HAPLOTYPES; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANIDAE; RNA, TRANSFER, TRP; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 38349154857     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03611.x     Document Type: Article

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