Does dispersal across an aquatic geographic barrier obscure phylogeographic structure in the diamond-backed watersnake (Nerodia rhombifer)?

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 552-560

  Brandley, Matthew C ^a   Guiher, Tim J ^b,c   Pyron, R Alexander ^b,c   Winne, Christopher T ^d   Burbrink, Frank T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Mississippi River; Molecular divergence dating; Natricinae; Nerodia; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SNAKE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COLUBRIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FLOW; HAPLOTYPES; MISSISSIPPI; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

NATRICINAE; NERODIA; NERODIA RHOMBIFER;

EID: 78049365415     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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