Documenting the advantages and limitations of different classes of molecular markers in a well-established phylogeographic context: Lessons from the Iberian endemic Golden-striped salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica (Caudata: Salamandridae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 371-387

  Sequeira, Fernando ^a,b   Alexandrino, João ^c   Weiss, Steven ^d   Ferrand, Nuno ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

fibrinogen gene; Allozymes; Evolutionary history; Microsatellites; mtDNA; Nuclear genealogy

Indexed keywords

ALLOZYME; AMPHIBIAN; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENEALOGY; GENETIC MARKER; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; ISOLATED POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POSTGLACIAL; PROTEIN; RANGE EXPANSION;

DOURO RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; MONDEGO RIVER; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CAUDATA; CHIOGLOSSA LUSITANICA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 53249140540     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01060.x     Document Type: Article

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