Glacial retreat and its influence on migration of mitochondrial genes in the long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) in Western North America

Migration of Organisms: Climate Geography Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 205-246

  Thompson, Mark D ^a   Russell, Anthony P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

biogeography; glaciation; long toed salamander; mitochondrial genes; phylogenetics; phylogeography; western North American Cordillera

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149458541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26604-6_8     Document Type: Chapter

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