Adaptive Color Polymorphism and Unusually High Local Genetic Diversity in the Side-Blotched Lizard, Uta stansburiana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Micheletti, Steven ^a,b   Parra, Eliseo ^a   Routman, Eric J ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SKIN COLOR; SPECIES HABITAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UTA STANSBURIANA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLOR; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIZARDS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

SQUAMATA; UTA; UTA STANSBURIANA;

EID: 84868122886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047694     Document Type: Article

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