Strong genetic impoverishment from the centre of distribution in southern Europe to peripheral Baltic and isolated Scandinavian populations of the pearly heath butterfly

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2090-2101

  Besold, Joachim ^b   Schmitt, Thomas ^b   Tammaru, Toomas ^c   Cassel Lundhagen, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Allozyme electrophoresis; Butterflies; Coenonympha arcania; Molecular biogeo graphy; Peripheral populations; Phylogeography; Post glacial; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

ALLOZYME; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTROKINESIS; ISOLATED POPULATION; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RANGE EXPANSION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; COENONYMPHA ARCANIA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 53849115051     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01939.x     Document Type: Article

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