Origin and in situ diversification in Hemidactylus geckos of the Socotra Archipelago

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 4074-4092

  GO'Mez DÍaz, Elena ^a   Sindaco, Roberto ^b   Pupin, Fabio ^c   Fasola, Mauro ^d   Carranza, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Museo Civico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

^c MdS Museo di Scienze   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

continental fragment; Gondwana; historical demography; multilocus coalescence; oceanic dispersal; phylogeography; species delimitation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; YEMEN;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; YEMEN;

CASTANEA CRENATA; GEKKONIDAE; HEMIDACTYLUS; REPTILIA;

EID: 84864407654     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05672.x     Document Type: Article

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