Phylogeographical Analysis of mtDNA Data Indicates Postglacial Expansion from Multiple Glacial Refugia in Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Klütsch, Cornelya F C ^a   Manseau, Micheline ^b,c   Wilson, Paul J ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GLACIATION; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU; REINDEER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES REFUGE;

ANIMALS; CANADA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REINDEER;

MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

EID: 84871385630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052661     Document Type: Article

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