Cracking the nut: Geographical adjacency of sister taxa supports vicariance in a polytomic salamander clade in the absence of node support

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 916-931

  Veith, Michael ^a,g   Lipscher, Evelyne ^b   Öz, Mehmet ^c   Kiefer, Andreas ^b   Baran, Ibrahim ^d   Polymeni, Rosa M ^e   Steinfartz, Sebastian ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Geographical adjacency of sister taxa; Hard polytomy; Lyciasalamandra; Node support; Salamanders; Soft polytomy; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; INBREEDING; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; INBREEDING; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; URODELA;

AMPHIBIA; LYCIASALAMANDRA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 43949083697     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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