The snails the dinosaurs saw: Are the pleurocerid populations of the older appalachians a relict of the paleozoic era?

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Dillon Jr , Robert T ^a   Robinson, John D ^b  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; COI; Drainage evolution; Elimia; Gastropods; Genetic divergence; Goniobasis; Leptoxis; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CYTOCHROME; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; GENE EXPRESSION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PALEOZOIC; RIVER; SNAIL; STREAM;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

CATENARIA; DINOSAURIA; ELIMIA; GASTROPODA; GONIOBASIS; GONIOBASIS PROXIMA; LEPTOXIS; LEPTOXIS CARINATA; PLEUROCERIDAE;

EID: 61449090450     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/08-034.1     Document Type: Article

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