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New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): Cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Apr 2011
Nielsen Stuart V, Bauer Aaron M, Jackman Todd R, Hitchmough Rod A, Daugherty Charles H
Abstract excerpt
We used a multi-gene approach to assess the phylogenetic relationships of New Zealand diplodactylid geckos to their Australian and New Caledonian relatives and to one another. Data from nuclear (RAG-1, PDC) and mitochondrial (ND2, 16S) genes from >180 specimens representing all 19 recognized New Zealand taxa and all but two of 20 putatively new species suggested by previous studies were analyzed using Maximum...
Topics
- Animals
- Bayes Theorem
- Biological Evolution
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Eye Proteins
- GTP-Binding Protein Regulators
- Genes, RAG-1
- Genetic Speciation
- Genetic Variation
- Likelihood Functions
- Lizards
- Models, Genetic
- New Zealand
- Phosphoproteins