Diabolical survival in death valley: Recent pupfish colonization, gene flow and genetic assimilation in the smallest species range on earth

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1823, 2016, Pages

  Martin, Christopher H ^a   Crawford, Jacob E ^b   Turner, Bruce J ^c   Simons, Lee H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d United States Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Demographic inference; Genetic accommodation; Introgression; Population genomics; Speciation

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CYPRINID; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DIVERGENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLOODING; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTROGRESSION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SURVIVAL;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINODON DIABOLIS; CYPRINODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; CALIFORNIA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; KILLIFISH; NEVADA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; KILLIFISHES; NEVADA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955593872     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2334     Document Type: Article

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