The "expansion-Contraction" model of Pleistocene biogeography: Rocky shores suffer a sea change?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 146-169

  Marko, Peter B ^a   Hoffman, Jessica M ^a   Emme, Sandra A ^a   McGovern, Tamara M ^a   Keever, Carson C ^b   Nicole Cox, L ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian demographic reconstruction; Climate change; Divergence times; Marine invertebrates; Mismatch analysis; Mitochondria; Population growth; Post glacial expansion; Skyline plot

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; THORACICA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THORACICA;

ASTERINA MINIATA; BALANUS GLANDULA; EVASTERIAS TROSCHELII; INVERTEBRATA; KATHARINA TUNICATA; LITTORINA SITKANA; MYTILUS TROSSULUS; NUCELLA; PISASTER OCHRACEUS; THORACICA; XIPHISTER MUCOSUS;

EID: 72849147695     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04417.x     Document Type: Article

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