General lack of phylogeographic structure in two sympatric, forest obligate squirrels (Sciurus niger and S. carolinensis)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1247-1264

  Moncrief, Nancy D ^a   Lack, Justin B ^b,c   Maldonado, Jess E ^d   Bryant, Katherine L ^e,f   Edwards, Cody W ^f   Van Den Bussche, Ronald A ^c  

^a VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coalescent; eastern North America; fox squirrel; glacial refugia; gray squirrel; incomplete lineage sorting; mismatch distribution; mitochondrial DNA; phylogeography; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; CYTOCHROME; DIVERGENCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGIUM; RODENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATRY; TEMPERATE FOREST;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84867769136     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-383.1     Document Type: Article

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