Speciation and adaptive radiation of subterranean mole rats, Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies, in Jordan

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 263-281

  Nevo, Eviatar ^a   Ivanitskaya, Elena ^a   Filippucci, Maria Gracia ^b   Beiles, Avigdor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Allozymes; Blind mole rats; Ecogeography; Jordan; Karyotypes; Pericentric inversions; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; RODENT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

JORDAN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUSA; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; PETRA; ROBERTSONIA; RODENTIA; SPALACINAE; SPALAX; SPALAX EHRENBERGI;

EID: 0033840529     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1999.0367     Document Type: Article

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