Phylogeography of two New Zealand lizards: McCann's skink (Oligosoma maccanni) and the brown skink (O. zelandicum)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1168-1177

  O'Neill, Shay B ^a   Chapple, David G ^a   Daugherty, Charles H ^a   Ritchie, Peter A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cook strait landbridge; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular clock; ND2; ND4; Pleistocene glacial cycle; Pliocene tectonism

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MYA; OLIGOSOMA MACCANNI; SQUAMATA;

EID: 49249123800     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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