New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): Cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Nielsen, Stuart V ^a   Bauer, Aaron M ^a   Jackman, Todd R ^a   Hitchmough, Rod A ^b   Daugherty, Charles H ^c  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Gekkota; Hoplodactylus; Mitochondrial DNA; Naultinus; Nuclear DNA; Phylogenetics; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHOSDUCIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LIZARD; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, RAG-1; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN REGULATORS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEW ZEALAND; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

GEKKONIDAE; GEKKOTA; HOPLODACTYLUS; HOPLODACTYLUS DUVAUCELII; HOPLODACTYLUS MACULATUS; MYA; PSEUDOTHECADACTYLUS;

EID: 79952736648     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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