Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships in the critically endangered Asian box turtle genus Cuora

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 656-667

  Spinks, Phillip Q ^a,d   Thomson, Robert C ^a   Zhang, YaPing ^b   Che, Jing ^b   Wu, Yonghua ^c   Bradley Shaffer, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cuora; Geoemydidae; Hybridization; Introgression; Lineage sorting; Species tree

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA; CUORA; GEOEMYDIDAE; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862793148     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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