Mitochondrial phylogeography and subspecies of the wide-ranging sub-Saharan leopard tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis (Testudines: Testudinidae) - a case study for the pitfalls of pseudogenes and GenBank sequences

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 348-359

  Fritz, Uwe ^a   Daniels, Savel R ^b   Hofmeyr, Margaretha D ^c   González, Juan ^d   Barrio Amorós, César L ^e   Širokỳ, Pavel ^f   Hundsdörfer, Anna K ^a   Stuckas, Heiko ^a  

^a Museum für Tierkunde   (Germany)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d Hospitalet   (Spain)

^e Fundacion AndigenA   (Venezuela)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Africa; Isolation by distance; Numts; Phylogeography; Pseudogenes; Stigmochelys; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TURTLE; VICARIANCE;

AFRICA;

FELIDAE; GEOCHELONE PARDALIS; OLIGACANTHORHYNCHUS; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 78649469289     PISSN: 09475745     EISSN: 14390469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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