The Amazon River system as an ecological barrier driving genetic differentiation of the pink dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 812-827

  Hollatz, Claudia ^a   Vilaça, Sibelle Torres ^a,b   Redondo, Rodrigo A F ^a   Marmontel, Míriam ^c   Baker, C Scott ^d   Santos, Fabrício R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL MAMIRAUÁ   (Brazil)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenecks; Gene flow; Microsatellites; Phylogeography; Phylopatry

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CYTOCHROME; DOLPHIN; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; ISOLATED POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DECLINE; RIVER SYSTEM;

AMAZON BASIN; ORINOCO BASIN;

INIA; INIA GEOFFRENSIS; MYA;

EID: 79952581368     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01616.x     Document Type: Article

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