Cryptic diversity within the endemic prehensile-tailed gecko Urocotyledon inexpectata across the Seychelles Islands: Patterns of phylogeographical structure and isolation at the multilocus level

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-191

  Rocha, Sara ^a,b,c   Harris, D James ^a,b   Posada, David ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cryptic variation; Islands; Phylogeography; Vicariance; Western Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CRYPSIS; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GONDWANA; ISOLATED POPULATION; LIZARD; MIGRATION; MIOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VICARIANCE; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

SEYCHELLES;

GEKKONIDAE; REPTILIA;

EID: 84860406946     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01710.x     Document Type: Article

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