Delayed genetic effects of habitat fragmentation on the ecologically specialized Florida sand skink (Plestiodon reynoldsi)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1281-1297

  Richmond, Jonathan Q ^a   Reid, Duncan T ^a,b   Ashton, Kyle G ^c   Zamudio, Kelly R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological specialization; Genetic inertia; Habitat fragmentation; Plestiodon reynoldsi; Skink

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; LIZARD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

NEOSEPS; NEOSEPS REYNOLDSI; SQUAMATA;

EID: 70350560926     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9707-x     Document Type: Article

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