Phylogeographic analysis detects congruent biogeographic patterns between a woodland agamid and Australian wet tropics taxa despite disparate evolutionary trajectories

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1543-1556

  Edwards, Danielle L ^a   Melville, Jane ^a  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agamidae; Australian wet tropics; Biogeography; Diporiphora australis; Eastern Australia; Lizards; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; LIZARD; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VICARIANCE; WOODLAND; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

AGAMIDAE; DIPORIPHORA AUSTRALIS; PHYLO; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77954726204     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02293.x     Document Type: Article

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