Local-scale environmental variation generates highly divergent lineages associated with stream drainages in a terrestrial salamander, Plethodon caddoensis

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 399-411

  Shepard, Donald B ^a,b   Burbrink, Frank T ^a,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climate change; Interior Highlands; Niche conservatism; Phylogeography; Speciation

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ADAPTATION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARKANSAS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OKLAHOMA; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URODELA;

PLETHODON CADDOENSIS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 79955093176     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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