Delimiting species using multilocus data: Diagnosing cryptic diversity in the southern cavefish, typhlichthys subterraneus (teleostei: Amblyopsidae)

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 846-866

  Niemiller, Matthew L ^a   Near, Thomas J ^b   Fitzpatrick, Benjamin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Cave; Conservation; Phylogenetics; Speciation; Species tree; Subterranean

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAVE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAVE; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CAVES; FISHES; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; ANIMALIA; TELEOSTEI; TYPHLICHTHYS; TYPHLICHTHYS SUBTERRANEUS;

EID: 84857687461     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01480.x     Document Type: Article

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