The evolution of sexual and parthenogenetic Warramaba: A window onto Plio-Pleistocene diversification processes in an arid biome

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 5257-5275

  Kearney, Michael ^a   Blacket, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Comparative phylogeography; Desert; Grasshopper; Hybridization; Parthenogenesis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GRASSHOPPER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; GRASSHOPPERS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

GEKKONIDAE; HETERONOTIA; WARRAMABA;

EID: 57349094374     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03991.x     Document Type: Article

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