Distinctiveness in the face of gene flow: Hybridization between specialist and generalist gartersnakes

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4107-4117

  Fitzpatrick, Benjamin M ^a   Placyk Jr , John S ^b   Niemiller, Matthew L ^a   Casper, Gary S ^c   Burghardt, Gordon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Hybrid zone; Speciation; Thamnophis butleri; Thamnophis radix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SNAKE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GREAT LAKES REGION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAKES;

THAMNOPHIS BUTLERI; THAMNOPHIS RADIX;

EID: 51649087890     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03885.x     Document Type: Article

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