Insight into an island radiation: The Tarentola geckos of the Cape Verde archipelago

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1047-1060

  Vasconcelos, Raquel ^c   Carranza, Salvador ^a   James Harris, D ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

12S; Biogeography; Cape Verde Islands; Cyt b; Geckos; Island radiation; Macaronesia; Phylogeny; Tarentola

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CRYPSIS; CYTOCHROME; DATA; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VOLCANISM;

CAPE VERDE; SENEGAL;

GEKKONIDAE; TARENTOLA;

EID: 77954067278     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02254.x     Document Type: Article

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