Genetic evidence of Quaternary demographic changes in four rain forest tree species sampled across the Isthmus of Panama

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 720-731

  Andrew Jones, F ^a,b   Cerón Souza, Ivania ^b   Hardesty, Britta Denise ^c   Dick, Christopher W ^b,d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coalescent theory; Gene flow; Genetic diversity; Last Glacial Maximum; Life history traits; Microsatellites; Pleistocene refuge theory; Population bottleneck; Tropical forest history

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; QUATERNARY; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE;

ISTHMUS OF PANAMA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANIMALIA; BIGNONIACEAE; CLUSIACEAE; JACARANDA COPAIA; LUEHEA SEEMANNII; MALVACEAE; SIMAROUBA AMARA; SIMAROUBACEAE; SYMPHONIA GLOBULIFERA;

EID: 84875067027     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12037     Document Type: Article

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