Support for vicariant origins of the New Zealand Onychophora

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 669-681

  Allwood, Julia ^a,b   Gleeson, Dianne ^a   Mayer, Georg ^c,d   Daniels, Savel ^e   Beggs, Jacqueline R ^b   Buckley, Thomas R ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Dispersal; Gondwana; Molecular clock; Oligocene Drowning; Peripatopsidae; Peripatus; Velvet worms; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONDWANA; INVERTEBRATE; OLIGOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY; VICARIANCE;

AUSTRALIA; CHILE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH AFRICA; TASMANIA;

EUPERIPATOIDES; METAPERIPATUS; ONYCHOPHORA; OOPERIPATELLUS; OOPERIPATELLUS INSIGNIS; OPISTHOPATUS; PERIPATOIDES; PERIPATOPSIDAE; PERIPATOPSIS; PERIPATUS; PHALLOCEPHALE;

EID: 77952021883     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02233.x     Document Type: Article

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