Correspondence between sexual isolation and allozyme differentiation: a test in the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus.

doi:10.1073/pnas.87.7.2715

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Correspondence between sexual isolation and allozyme differentiation: a test in the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Apr 1990

Tilley S G, Verrell P A, Arnold S J

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Ethological reproductive isolation and genetic divergence across 26 protein loci were measured among populations of the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Levels of ethological isolation varied from none to complete and were statistically significant for al...

Topics

Animals
Demography
Female
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Geography
Isoenzymes
Male
North Carolina
Probability
Species Specificity
Caudata
Virginia

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