Reconstructing the evolutionary history of an endangered subspecies across the changing landscape of the Great Central Valley of California

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 5918-5933

  Matocq, Marjorie D ^a   Kelly, Patrick A ^b   Phillips, Scott E ^b   Maldonado, Jesus E ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

approximate Bayesian computation; hybridization; Neotoma; San Joaquin Valley

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SIGMODONTINAE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CALIFORNIA; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMODONTINAE;

NEOTOMA;

EID: 84870870263     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12079     Document Type: Article

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