Diversification of Ponto-Caspian aquatic fauna: Morphology and molecules retrieve congruent evolutionary relationships in pontogammarus maeoticus (Amphipoda: Pontogammaridae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1063-1076

  Nahavandi, Nahid ^a   Ketmaier, Valerio ^a,b   Plath, Martin ^c   Tiedemann, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspot; Black Sea; Caspian Sea; Paratethys; Sea of Azov; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; EUXINIA MAEOTICUS; PARATETHYS; PONTOGAMMARIDAE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLACK SEA; CASPIAN SEA; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; PARATETHYS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEA OF AZOV; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VICARIANCE;

BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT; BLACK SEA; CASPIAN SEA; PARATETHYS; SEA OF AZOV; VICARIANCE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLACK SEA; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84884597191     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.021     Document Type: Article

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