Article
Historical isolation, range expansion, and secondary contact of two highly divergent mitochondrial lineages in spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum).
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2003
Zamudio Kelly R, Savage Wesley K
Abstract excerpt
The high species diversity of aquatic and terrestrial faunas in eastern North America has been attributed to range reductions and allopatric diversification resulting from historical climate change. The role these processes may have played in speciation is still a matter of considerable debate; however, their impacts on intraspecific genetic structure have been well documented. We use mitochondrial DNA sequences...
Topics
- Ambystoma
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biodiversity
- Climate
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Environment
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Haplotypes
- Likelihood Functions
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Movement
- North America
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA