Historical biogeography, phylogenetic relationships and intraspecific diversity of agamid lizards in the Central Asian deserts of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-112

  Melville, Jane ^a   Hale, Joshua ^a,b   Mantziou, Georgia ^a   Ananjeva, Natalia B ^c   Milto, Konstantin ^c   Clemann, Nick ^d  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agamidae; Central Asia; Deserts; Laudakia; Phrynocephalus; Phylogeography; Relaxed molecular clock; Trapelus

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; KAZAKHSTAN; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UZBEKISTAN;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; KAZAKHSTAN; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UZBEKISTAN;

AGAMIDAE; AGAMINAE; LAUDAKIA; PARATETHYS; PHRYNOCEPHALUS; SQUAMATA; TRAPELUS;

EID: 67949092697     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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