Pronounced phylogeographic structure on a small spatial scale: Geomorphological evolution and lineage history in the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii in central coastal California

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 240-255

  Kuchta, Shawn R ^a   Parks, Duncan S ^a   Wake, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Ensatina eschscholtzii; Haplotype network; Isolation by distance; Mismatch distribution; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Ring species; Secondary contact

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URODELA;

ENSATINA ESCHSCHOLTZII; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 58049176342     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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