The anatomy of a 'suture zone' in Amazonian butterflies: A coalescent-based test for vicariant geographic divergence and speciation

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4283-4301

  Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K ^a   Lamas, Gerardo ^b   Simpson, Fraser ^a   Mallet, James ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coalescent theory; Heliconius; Ithomiini; phylogeography; Pleistocene refuges; speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; CELL NUCLEUS; COALESCENT THEORY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HELICONIUS; ITHOMIINI; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE REFUGES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COALESCENT THEORY; HELICONIUS; ITHOMIINI; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE REFUGES; SPECIATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BUTTERFLIES; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PERU; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HELICONIUS; HYPOSCADA; ITHOMIINI; MELINAEA; OLERIA; OLERIINA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 77957222307     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04802.x     Document Type: Article

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