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Title: Long-distance colonization and radiation in gekkonid lizards, Tarentola (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences
Authors: Carranza, Salvador
Arnold, E. N.
Mateo, José Antonio
López-Jurado, L. F. 
UNESCO Clasification: 24 Ciencias de la vida
2401 Biología animal (zoología)
240116 Herpetología
Keywords: Canary-Islands
Evolution
Congruence
Issue Date: 2000
Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 
Abstract: Morphological systematics makes it clear that many non-volant animal groups have undergone extensive transmarine dispersal with subsequent radiation in new, often island, areas. However, details of such events are often lacking. Here we use partial DNA sequences derived from the mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes (up to 684 and 320 bp, respectively) to trace migration and speciation in Tarentola geckos, a primarily North African clade which has invaded many of the warmer islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. There were four main invasions of archipelagos presumably by rafting.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/19921
ISSN: 0962-8452
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1050
Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences[ISSN 0962-8452],v. 267, p. 637-649
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