Landscape Genetics of Leaf-Toed Geckos in the Tropical Dry Forest of Northern Mexico

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Blair, Christopher ^a,b,e   Jiménez Arcos, Victor H ^c   Mendez de la Cruz, Fausto R ^c   Murphy, Robert W ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE GENETICS; LEAF TOED GECKO; LIZARD; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL DRY FOREST; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MEXICO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 84874395487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057433     Document Type: Article

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