Genetic zoogeography of the Hyalella azteca species complex in the Great Basin: Rapid rates of molecular diversification in desert springs

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 439, Issue , 2008, Pages 103-114

  Witt, Jonathan D S ^a   Threloff, Doug L ^b   Hebert, Paul D N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b University of Guelph ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphipoda; Divergence rates; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular clocks; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATOMIC CLOCKS; DNA; LAKES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

AMPHIPODA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR VARIATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE DIVERGENCES; TEMPORAL SEQUENCES;

CATCHMENTS;

AMPHIPOD; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMISM; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; VICARIANCE;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIPODA; HYALELLA; HYALELLA AZTECA; HYALELLIDAE;

EID: 75249088702     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2439(05)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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