Cryptic speciation patterns in Iranian rock lizards uncovered by integrative taxonomy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Ahmadzadeh, Faraham ^a,b   Flecks, Morris ^b   Carretero, Miguel A ^c   Mozaffari, Omid ^d   Böhme, Wolfgang ^b   Harris, D James ^c   Freitas, Susana ^c   Rödder, Dennis ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d Aria Herpetological Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYTIC SPECIES; DAREVSKIA CASPICA; DAREVSKIA CHLOROGASTER; DAREVSKIA DEFILIPPI; DAREVSKIA KAMII; DAREVSKIA KOPETDAGHICA; DAREVSKIA SCHAEKELI; DAREVSKIA STEINERI; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; IRAN; LIZARD; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOMETRICS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROCK LIZARD; SAMPLE SIZE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC RANK; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; IRAN; LIZARDS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84891900174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080563     Document Type: Article

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