Biogeographic barriers in south-eastern Australia drive phylogeographic divergence in the garden skink, Lampropholis guichenoti

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1761-1775

  Chapple, David G ^a,b   Chapple, Stephanie N J ^b,c   Thompson, Michael B ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glacial refugia; Hunter Valley; Lizard; Miocene; Mitochondrial DNA; ND4; Phylogeography; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Reptile

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; LIZARD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; REFUGIUM;

AUSTRALIA; HUNTER VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

LAMPROPHOLIS DELICATA; LAMPROPHOLIS GUICHENOTI; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960845164     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02531.x     Document Type: Article

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