Marine incursions, cryptic species and ecological diversification in Amazonia: The biogeographic history of the croaker genus Plagioscion (Sciaenidae)

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 724-738

  Cooke, Georgina M ^a   Chao, Ning L ^b   Beheregaray, Luciano B ^a,c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Divergent natural selection; Ecological gradients; Marine derived lineage; Phylogeography; Plagioscion squamosissimus; South America

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PERCIFORM; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE EXPANSION;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

PLAGIOSCION; PLAGIOSCION SQUAMOSISSIMUS; SCIAENIDAE;

EID: 84858706899     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02635.x     Document Type: Article

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