Tracing glacial refugia of Triturus newts based on mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and species distribution modeling

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wielstra, Ben ^a,b   Crnobrnja Isailović, Jelka ^c,d   Litvinchuk, Spartak N ^e   Reijnen, Bastian T ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^b   Sotiropoulos, Konstantinos ^f   Toxopeus, Albertus G ^b   Tzankov, Nikolay ^g   Vukov, Tanja ^d   Arntzen, Jan W ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^e INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^g BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Colonization; Contact zone; Historical biogeography; Ice Age; Introgression; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITURUS; TRITURUS CRISTATUS; TRITURUS DOBROGICUS; TRITURUS KARELINII;

EID: 84875063013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-13     Document Type: Article

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