Eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) lacks phylogeographic structure: Recent range expansion and phenotypic differentiation

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1112-1123

  Moncrief, Nancy D ^a   Lack, Justin B ^b   Van Den Bussche, Ronald A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coalescent; cytochrome b; glacial refugia; incomplete lineage sorting; mismatch distribution; mitochondrial DNA; phylogeography; Pleistocene; retained ancestral polymorphism; unglaciated eastern North America

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MITOCHONDRION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGIUM; SMALL MAMMAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS NIGER;

EID: 77958515753     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-266.1     Document Type: Article

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