A peninsula as an island: Multiple forms of evidence for overwater colonization of Baja California by the gartersnake Thamnophis validus

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 409-424

  Queiroz, Alan De ^a   Lawson, Robin ^b  

^a California Academy of Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aridification; Difference by distance; Dispersal; Divergence dating; Human introduction; Mexico; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Tectonics; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISLAND; ISOLATED POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SNAKE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

MYA; SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS VALIDUS;

EID: 53249097552     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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