A mitochondrial phylogeny of the rainforest skink genus Saproscincus, Wells and Wellington (1984)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 190-202

  Moussalli, Adnan ^a,d   Hugall, Andrew F ^a,b   Moritz, Craig ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Plant   (Australia)

Author keywords

Divergent selection; Historical biogeography; Miocene; Partitioned likelihood support; Phylogeny; Saproscincus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

SAPROSCINCUS; SCINCIDAE;

EID: 9744260368     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.08.022     Document Type: Article

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