Stepping stone speciation in hawaii's flycatchers: Molecular divergence supports new island endemics within the elepaio

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1283-1298

  VanderWerf, Eric A ^a   Young, Lindsay C ^b   Yeung, Norine W ^b   Carlon, David B ^b  

^a Pacific Rim Conservation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Chasiempis; Elepaio; Hawaii; Phylogeography; Population structure; Relaxed clock

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOREST COVER; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KAUAI; OAHU; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CHASIEMPIS; CHASIEMPIS SANDWICHENSIS;

EID: 77953913537     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9958-1     Document Type: Article

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