Gene trees, species and species trees in the Ctenosaura palearis clade

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1767-1781

  Pasachnik, Stesha A ^a   Echternacht, Arthur C ^a   Fitzpatrick, Benjamin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

BEST; Ctenosaura; Estimating species trees; Gene trees; Minimizing deep coalescence; Species designation

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYNTAXONOMY;

CTENOSAURA; CTENOSAURA PALEARIS; IGUANIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77956850792     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0070-3     Document Type: Article

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