Ephemeral Pleistocene woodlands connect the dots for highland rattlesnakes of the Crotalus intermedius group

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2299-2310

  Bryson, Robert W ^a   Murphy, Robert W ^b,c   Graham, Matthew R ^a   Lathrop, Amy ^b   Lazcano, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ancestral area reconstruction; Crotalus intermedius; Divergence dating; Mexico; Niche modelling; Phylogeography; Quaternary; Rattlesnakes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS TREE; FRAGMENTATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEOGENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SNAKE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SIERRA MADRE;

ARIZONA (SNAKE); CROTALUS; CROTALUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 81255158687     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02565.x     Document Type: Article

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