Hiding deep in the trees: Discovery of divergent mitochondrial lineages in malagasy chameleons of the Calumma nasutum group

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1468-1479

  Gehring, Philip Sebastian ^a   Tolley, Krystal A ^b,c   Eckhardt, Falk Sebastian ^a,d   Townsend, Ted M ^e   Ziegler, Thomas ^f   Ratsoavina, Fanomezana ^a,g   Glaw, Frank ^h   Vences, Miguel ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Cologne Zoo ^*  (Germany)

^g Universitié d Antananarivo   (Madagascar)

^h ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calumma nasutum group; Chamaeleonidae; Genital morphology; Madagascar; Molecular diversity; Snout appendage scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876346586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.269     Document Type: Article

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