Adaptive radiation in Lesser Antillean lizards: Molecular phylogenetics and species recognition in the Lesser Antillean dwarf gecko complex, Sphaerodactylus fantasticus

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1489-1504

  Thorpe, R S ^a   Jones, A G ^a   Malhotra, A ^a   Surget Groba, Y ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Lesser Antilles; mtDNA; Phylogeography; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TIME FACTORS;

ANOLIS; ANOLIS BIMACULATUS; ANOLIS TERRAEALTAE; GEKKONIDAE; SPHAERODACTYLUS; SPHAERODACTYLUS FANTASTICUS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 40449087956     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03686.x     Document Type: Article

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