Phylogeography of the Brownback Salamander reveals patterns of local endemism in Southern Appalachian springs

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 368-376

  Timpe, Elizabeth K ^a   Graham, Sean P ^b   Bonett, Ronald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cumberland Plateau; Eurycea; Highland Rim; ND2; Rag1; Ridge and Valley

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; APPALACHIAN REGION; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URODELA;

EURYCEA; EURYCEA AQUATICA; EURYCEA CIRRIGERA; EURYCEA JUNALUSKA; EURYCEA WILDERAE; SALAMANDROIDEA; VERTEBRATA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 67349278757     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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