Distinguishing coevolution from covicariance in an obligate pollination mutualism: Asynchronous divergence in Joshua tree and its pollinators

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2676-2687

  Smith, Christopher Irwin ^a   Godsoe, William K W ^a   Tank, Shantel ^a   Yoder, Jeremy B ^a   Pellmyr, Olle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Bouse Embayment; Coevolution; Cospeciation; IM; Pollination; Vicariance; Yucca; Yucca moth

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA;

COEVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; MONOCOTYLEDON; MOTH; MUTUALISM; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VICARIANCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTH; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; YUCCA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MOTHS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YUCCA;

LEPIDOPTERA; PRODOXIDAE; TEGETICULA; YUCCA BREVIFOLIA;

EID: 53149083000     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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