As Old as the Hills: Montane Scorpions in Southwestern North America Reveal Ancient Associations between Biotic Diversification and Landscape History

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bryson, Robert W ^a,b   Riddle, Brett R ^a   Graham, Matthew R ^a   Smith, Brian Tilston ^c   Prendini, Lorenzo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; SCORPION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VAEJOVIS BANDIDO; VAEJOVIS CASHI; VAEJOVIS DEBOERAE; VAEJOVIS ELECTRUM; VAEJOVIS FETI; VAEJOVIS HALLI; VAEJOVIS JONESI; VAEJOVIS LAPIDICOLA; VAEJOVIS PAYSONENSIS; VAEJOVIS TENUIPALPUS; VAEJOVIS VORHIESI;

SCORPIONES; VAEJOVIS;

EID: 84872244993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052822     Document Type: Article

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