Parallel adaptive radiations in arid and temperate Australia: Molecular phylogeography and systematics of the Egernia whitii (Lacertilia: Scincidae) species group

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-173

  Chapple, David G ^a   Keogh, J Scott ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

fibrinogen; 16S rRNA; Biogeography; mtDNA; ND4; Nuclear gene; Phylogeny; Skink; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EGERNIA; EGERNIA MULTISCUTATA; EGERNIA WHITII; EULAMPRUS; EULAMPRUS HEATWOLEI; LACERTILIA; SCINCIDAE; VICTORIA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 6344278509     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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