Multilocus phylogeny and Bayesian estimates of species boundaries reveal hidden evolutionary relationships and cryptic diversity in Southeast Asian monitor lizards

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 3495-3510

  Welton, L J ^a,b   Siler, C D ^c   Oaks, J R ^b   Diesmos, A C ^d   Brown, R M ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c University of South Dakota   (United States)

^d National Museum of the Philippines   (Philippines)

Author keywords

conservation genetics; mitochondrial DNA; nuclear DNA; Philippines; Southeast Asia; species delimitation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; INDIA; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; INDIA; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

SQUAMATA; VARANUS; VARANUS SALVATOR;

EID: 84879555727     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12324     Document Type: Article

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