Mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence yields new insight into the speciation of social voles in south-west Asia

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 121-128

  KryŠtufek, Boris ^a   BuŽan, Elena V ^a   VohralÍk, Vladimír ^b   Zareie, Roghaieh ^c   Özkan, Beytullah ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^d TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Arvicolinae; Cryptic species; Microtus anatolicus; Microtus dogramacii; Microtus guentheri; Microtus irani; Microtus socialis; Molecular systematics; Taxonomic richness

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CRYPSIS; CYTOCHROME; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA;

ARVICOLINAE; MICROTUS; MICROTUS DOGRAMACII; MICROTUS GUENTHERI; MICROTUS IRANI; MICROTUS SOCIALIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 69449089562     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01248.x     Document Type: Article

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