Phylogeography of Beck's Desert Scorpion, Paruroctonus becki, reveals Pliocene diversification in the Eastern California Shear Zone and postglacial expansion in the Great Basin Desert

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 502-513

  Graham, Matthew R ^a   Jaeger, Jef R ^a   Prendini, Lorenzo ^b   Riddle, Brett R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin and range; Biogeography; COI; Ecological niche modeling; Mitochondrial DNA; Mojave Desert

Indexed keywords

PARUROCTONUS; SCORPIONES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASIN AND RANGE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COI; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELING; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOJAVE DESERT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; SCORPION; UNITED STATES;

BASIN AND RANGE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COI; ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELING; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOJAVE DESERT;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84884670148     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.07.028     Document Type: Article

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