Identifying glacial refugia in a geographic parthenogen using palaeoclimate modelling and phylogeography: The New Zealand stick insect Argosarchus horridus (White)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 4650-4663

  Buckley, Thomas R ^a   Marske, Katharine A ^a,b   Attanayake, Dilini ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Coalescent model; Ecological niche model; Phasmatodea; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEW ZEALAND; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; INSECTS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HEXAPODA; PHASMATODEA;

EID: 70350747441     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04396.x     Document Type: Article

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