Where and when does a ring start and end? Testing the ring-species hypothesis in a species complex of Australian parrots

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1650, 2008, Pages 2431-2440

  Joseph, Leo ^a,b   Dolman, Gaynor ^b   Donnellan, Stephen ^c   Saint, Kathleen M ^c   Berg, Mathew L ^d,e   Bennett, Andrew T D ^d,e  

^a ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crimson Rosella; Landscape genetics; Phylogeography; Platycercus elegans; Ring species; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BIRD; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE EXPANSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ALLOPATRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARROT; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLATYCERCUS ELEGANS; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AVES; GEOPSITTACUS OCCIDENTALIS; PLATYCERCUS ELEGANS;

EID: 52749090706     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0765     Document Type: Article

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