Species Delimitation and Morphological Divergence in the Scorpion Centruroides vittatus (Say, 1821): Insights from Phylogeography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Yamashita, Tsunemi ^a   Rhoads, Douglas D ^b  

^a ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRUROIDES; CENTRUROIDES VITTATUS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENUS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SCORPION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCORPIONS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

BUTHIDA; BUTHIDAE; CENTRUROIDES; CENTRUROIDES VITTATUS; PECOS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 84879828442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068282     Document Type: Article

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