High population connectivity across the Indo-Pacific: Congruent lack of phylogeographic structure in three reef fish congeners

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 629-638

  Horne, John B ^a   van Herwerden, Lynne ^a   Choat, J Howard ^a   Robertson, D R ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Acanthuridae; Comparative phylogeography; Coral reef fish; Mitochondrial control region; Naso brevirostris; Naso unicornis; Stochastic variation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACANTHURIDAE; ANTHOZOA; NASO; NASO BREVIROSTRIS; NASO UNICORNIS; NASO VLAMINGII;

EID: 55249111252     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.023     Document Type: Article

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