Article
Deep divergences and extensive phylogeographic structure in a clade of lowland tropical salamanders.
BMC evolutionary biology - 29 Dec 2012
Rovito Sean M, Parra-Olea Gabriela, Vásquez-Almazán Carlos R, Luna-Reyes Roberto, Wake David B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The complex geological history of Mesoamerica provides the opportunity to study the impact of multiple biogeographic barriers on population differentiation. We examine phylogeographic patterns in a clade of lowland salamanders (Bolitoglossa subgenus Nanotriton) using two mitochondrial genes and one nuclear gene. We use several phylogeographic analyses to infer the history of this clade and test...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Cell Nucleus
- Cytochromes b
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Guatemala
- Haplotypes
- Honduras