Lineage diversification and historical demography of a sky island salamander, Plethodon ouachitae, from the Interior Highlands

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 5315-5335

  Shepard, Donald B ^a   Burbrink, Frank T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climate change; Glacial cycles; Ouachita Mountains; Phylogeography; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES; URODELA;

PLETHODON OUACHITAE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 57349103310     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03998.x     Document Type: Article

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