Phylogeography and diversification history of the day-gecko genus Phelsuma in the Seychelles islands

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rocha, Sara ^a,b,c   Posada, David ^a,c   Harris, D James ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b IN Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Character displacement; Diversification; Morphological evolution; Phelsuma; Phylogeography; Seychelles; Species trees

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; ARCHIPELAGO; BODY SIZE; COEVOLUTION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIZARD; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEA LEVEL; SYMPATRY; TAXONOMY;

SEYCHELLES;

MYCTEROPERCA FUSCA; PHELSUMA; VERTEBRATA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION; SEYCHELLES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; ISLANDS; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEYCHELLES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871818181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-3     Document Type: Article

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