Do large molecular sequence divergences imply an early closure of the Isthmus of Panama?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 43, 2015, Pages E5766-

  Marko, Peter B ^a   Eytan, Ron I ^b   Knowlton, Nancy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIVALVE; CARIBBEAN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOLOGY; ISTHMUS; LETTER; MARINE SPECIES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; SHRIMP; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXON; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 84945576446     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515048112     Document Type: Letter

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