Speciation on the Azores islands: Congruent patterns in shell morphology, genital anatomy, and molecular markers in endemic land snails (Gastropoda, Leptaxinae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 166-176

  Jordaens, Kurt ^a   Van Riel, Patrick ^a,c   Frias Martins, Anatonio M ^b   Backeljau, Thierry ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Colonization; Endemism; Hygromiidae; Island biogeography; Macaronesia; Morphometry; Multivariate analyses; Radiation; Reproductive organs

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANATOMY; ARCHIPELAGO; COLONIZATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SHELL; SNAIL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

GASTROPODA; HYGROMIIDAE; PULMONATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 65249168722     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01197.x     Document Type: Article

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