Comparative phylogeography reveals distinct colonization patterns of Cretan snakes

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1143-1155

  Kyriazi, Panagiota ^a   Kornilios, Panagiotis ^a,f   Nagy, Zoltán Tamás ^b   Poulakakis, Nikos ^a   Kumlutaş, Yusuf ^c   Ilgaz, Çetin ^c   Avci, Aziz ^d   Göçmen, Bayram ^e   Lymberakis, Petros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Colubridae; Crete; Dispersal; Divergence times; Eastern Mediterranean; Phylogeny; Reptiles; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CONSPECIFIC; CYTOCHROME; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MIOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SNAKE; VICARIANCE;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; AEGEAN SEA; CRETE [GREECE]; CYCLADES; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); PELOPONNESE; SANTORIN; SANTORINI [SOUTHERN AEGEAN]; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; TURKEY;

COLUBRIDAE; HIEROPHIS GEMONENSIS; NATRIX TESSELLATA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; TELESCOPUS FALLAX; THERA; ZAMENIS SITULA;

EID: 84878016296     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12057     Document Type: Article

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