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Speciation and secondary contact in a fossorial island endemic, the São Tomé caecilian
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & Global Genome Initiative, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
- 2. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- 3. Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
- 4. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal & Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, USA
- 5. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
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O'Connell, Kyle A., Prates, Ivan, Scheinberg, Lauren A., Mulder, Kevin P., Bell, Rayna C. (2021): Speciation and secondary contact in a fossorial island endemic, the São Tomé caecilian. Molecular Ecology 30 (12): 1-13, DOI: 10.1111/mec.15928
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