Quaternary climate and environmental changes have shaped genetic differentiation in a Chinese pheasant endemic to the eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 129-139

  Gu, Langyu ^a   Liu, Yang ^b   Que, Pinjia ^a   Zhang, Zhengwang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conservation units; Pheasant; Phylogeography; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GALLIFORMES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GALLIFORMES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; CROSSOPTILON AURITUM;

EID: 84873700703     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.12.013     Document Type: Article

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