Morphometrics parallel genetics in a newly discovered and endangered taxon of Galápagos tortoise

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Chiari, Ylenia ^a,e   Hyseni, Chaz ^a   Fritts, Tom H ^b   Glaberman, Scott ^a   Marquez, Cruz ^c   Gibbs, James P ^d   Claude, Julien ^e   Caccone, Adalgisa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Galapagos National Park Service   (Ecuador)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERRO FATAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GALAPAGOS TORTOISE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; LA RESERVA; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TISSUE TYPES; TORTOISE SHELL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TURTLE;

GEOCHELONE NIGRA; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECUADOR; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; TURTLES;

EID: 67651049551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006272     Document Type: Article

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