Cladogenesis and phylogeography of the lizard Phrynocephalus vlangalii (Agamidae) on the Tibetan plateau

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1971-1982

  Jin, Yuan Ting ^a   Brown, Richard P ^b   Liu, Nai Fa ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agamid; Geology; mtDNA; Phylogeny; Qinghai Plateau; Tibet

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; HAPLOTYPES; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; RNA, TRANSFER, TRP; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TIBET; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AGAMIDAE; ANIMALIA; MYA; PHRYNOCEPHALUS; PHRYNOCEPHALUS THEOBALDI; PHRYNOCEPHALUS VLANGALII; PHRYNOCEPHALUS ZETANGENSIS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 42049107739     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03721.x     Document Type: Article

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