Variable responses of skinks to a common history of rainforest fluctuation: Concordance between phylogeography and palaeo-distribution models

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 483-499

  Moussalli, Adnan ^a,b   Moritz, Craig ^c   Williams, Stephen E ^d   Carnaval, Ana C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Palaeo distribution; Palaeoclimate; Phylogeography; Pleistocene refugia; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

SAPROSCINCUS; SAPROSCINCUS BASILISCUS; SAPROSCINCUS CZECHURAI; SCINCIDAE;

EID: 58549086994     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04035.x     Document Type: Article

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