Unravelling the peculiarities of island life: Vicariance, dispersal and the diversification of the extinct and extant giant Galápagos tortoises

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 160-173

  Poulakakis, Nikos ^a   Russello, Michael ^b   Geist, Dennis ^c   Caccone, Adalgisa ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian approaches; historical DNA; phylogeny; phylogeography

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURTLES;

GEOCHELONE NIGRA;

EID: 84155167799     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05370.x     Document Type: Article

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