How lizards survived blizzards: Phylogeography of the Liolaemus lineomaculatus group (Liolaemidae) reveals multiple breaks and refugia in southern Patagonia and their concordance with other codistributed taxa

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 6068-6085

  Breitman, M Florencia ^a   Avila, Luciano J ^a   Sites Jr , Jack W ^b   Morando, Mariana ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biogeography; Liolaemidae; nuclear and mitochondrial genes; Patagonia; refugia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; LIOLAEMINAE; LIOLAEMUS; LIOLAEMUS LINEOMACULATUS; RODENTIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84870924873     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12075     Document Type: Article

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