Cranial shape variation and molecular phylogenetic structure of crested newts (Triturus cristatus superspecies: Caudata, Salamandridae) in the Balkans

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 348-360

  Ivanović, Ana ^a   Sotiropoulos, Konstantinos ^b   Vukov, Tanja D ^c   Eleftherakos, Karolos ^b   Džukić, Georg ^c   Maria Polymeni, Rosa ^b   Kalezić, Miloš L ^a,c  

^a Faculty of Biology   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Allometry; Geometric morphometrics; Phylogeny; Skull

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; AMPHIBIAN; CRANIUM; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SHAPE;

BALKANS; EURASIA;

CAUDATA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA; TRITURUS CRISTATUS; TRITURUS DOBROGICUS;

EID: 53249088052     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01045.x     Document Type: Article

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