Genetic and phenotypic variation across a hybrid zone between ecologically divergent tree squirrels (Tamiasciurus)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3350-3366

  Chavez, Andreas S ^a   Saltzberg, Carl J ^b   Kenagy, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

cline; coloration; hybridization; morphology; selection; speciation; Tamiasciurus

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; SCIURIDAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; SCIURIDAE; SELECTION, GENETIC; WASHINGTON;

SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS DOUGLASII; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 80051668054     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05184.x     Document Type: Article

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