Testing species delimitation in sympatric species complexes: The case of an African tropical tree, Carapa spp. (Meliaceae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 275-285

  Duminil, Jérôme ^a,b   Kenfack, David ^c   Viscosi, Vincenzo ^d   Grumiau, Laurent ^a   Hardy, Olivier J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Africa; Bayesian assignment; Hybridization; Rainforest; Speciation; Species boundary

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAMEROON; CHLOROPLAST GENE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MELIACEAE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMPATRY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CAMEROON; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENE FLOW; GENES, CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC SPECIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MELIACEAE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SYMPATRY;

CARAPA; MELIACEAE;

EID: 83655167164     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.020     Document Type: Article

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