Phylogeography of the southern skua complex-rapid colonization of the southern hemisphere during a glacial period and reticulate evolution

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 292-303

  Ritz, Markus S ^a   Millar, Craig ^b   Miller, Gary D ^c   Phillips, Richard A ^d   Ryan, Peter ^e   Sternkopf, Viviane ^f   Liebers Helbig, Dorit ^f   Peter, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f Aquarium Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catharacta; Demographic history; Gene flow; Hybridisation; Nested clade phylogeographic analysis; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; ICE COVER; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; ICE COVER; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CATHARACTA;

EID: 52249117216     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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