Reticulate evolution: Frequent introgressive hybridization among chinese hares (genus lepus) revealed by analyses of multiple mitochondrial and nuclear DNA loci

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Jiang ^a   Yu, Li ^a   Arnold, Michael ^c   Wu, Chun Hua ^b,e   Wu, Shi Fang ^b   Lu, Xin ^d   Zhang, Ya Ping ^a,b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c University of Georgia   (United States)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CLADISTICS; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENEALOGY; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; LAGOMORPH; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

LEPUS; LEPUS MANDSHURICUS; LEPUS SINENSIS; LEPUS TIMIDUS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HARE; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHINA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HARES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79960655767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-223     Document Type: Article

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