Red- And yellow-footed tortoises, Chelonoidis carbonaria and C. denticulam (Reptilia: Testadines: Testudinidae), in South American savannahs and forests: Do their phylogeographies reflect distinct habitats?

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-172

  Vargas Ramírez, Mario ^a   Maran, Jérôme ^b   Fritz, Uwe ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Mairie des Bessières ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b gene; Forest refugia hypothesis; Phylogeography; Testudinidae rainforest

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; CYTOCHROME; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFOREST; SAVANNA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST; TURTLE;

AMAZONIA;

MYA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 77956361281     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-010-0016-0     Document Type: Article

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