Lessons from a complex biogeographical scenario: Morphological characters match mitochondrial lineages within Iberian Coronella austriaca (Reptilia: Colubridae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 210-223

  Llorente, Gustavo A ^a   Vidal García, Marta ^a   Garriga, Núria ^a   Carranza, Salvador ^b   Pleguezuelos, Juan M ^c   Santos, Xavier ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fecundity selection; Interclade variation; Morphometric; Phylogeography; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; CLADISTICS; FECUNDITY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; REFUGIUM; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SNAKE;

EUROPE;

COLUBRIDAE; CORONELLA AUSTRIACA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84859371597     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01844.x     Document Type: Article

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