Small-scale genetic structuring in a tropical cave snail and admixture with its above-ground sister species

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 727-740

  Schilthuizen, Menno ^a,b,c   Rutten, Elise M J ^c   Haase, Martin ^d  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S mtDNA; Borneo; Ecological speciation; Gastropoda; Georissa; Parapatric; Phylogeography; Troglobite

Indexed keywords

CAVE; DISPERSAL; ECOTONE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; LIMESTONE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; OUTCROP; PARAPATRY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SNAIL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TROPICAL REGION;

BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

GASTROPODA; GEORISSA; HYDROCENIDAE;

EID: 84857982699     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01835.x     Document Type: Article

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