Population genetic structure and geographic differentiation in the hot spring snake Thermophis baileyi (Serpentes, Colubridae): Indications for glacial refuges in southern-central Tibet

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 396-406

  Hofmann, Sylvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; Population genetics; Thermophis; Tibet

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; COLUBRIDAE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; THERMAL SPRING;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLIMATE; COLUBRIDAE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HOT SPRINGS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIBET;

BAILEYI; COLUBRIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 84858080766     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.01.014     Document Type: Article

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