Eastern Beringian biogeography: Historical and spatial genetic structure of singing voles in Alaska

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1414-1431

  Weksler, Marcelo ^a,b,c   Lanier, Hayley C ^a   Olson, Link E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Cricetidae; Cytochrome b; Microrefugia; Microtus abbreviatus; Microtus miurus; Phylogeography; Pleistocene glaciation; Rodentia; Social structure

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CYTOCHROME; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GLACIATION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; NOMENCLATURE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; RELATEDNESS; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

ARVICOLINAE; CRICETIDAE; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS ABBREVIATUS; MICROTUS MIURUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 77954706255     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02310.x     Document Type: Article

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