Article
Divergence across Australia's Carpentarian barrier: statistical phylogeography of the red-backed fairy wren (Malurus melanocephalus).
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2008
Lee June Y, Edwards Scott V
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus analysis of phylogeography and population history is a powerful tool for understanding the origin, dispersal, and geographic structure of species over time and space. Using 36 genetic markers (29 newly developed anonymous nuclear loci, six introns and one from mitochondrial DNA, amounting to over 15 kb per individual), we studied population structure and demographic history of the red-backed fairy wren...
Topics
- Animals
- Australia
- Base Sequence
- Cluster Analysis
- Gene Flow
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Geography
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
