The Sahara as a vicariant agent, and the role of miocene climatic events, in the diversification of the mammalian order Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 100, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 8325-8330

  Douady, Christophe J ^a,e   Catzeflis, François ^b   Raman, Jaishree ^c   Springer, Mark S ^d   Stanhope, Michael J ^a,f  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT; DESERTIFICATION; ELEPHANT SHREW; ELEPHANTULUS; ELEPHANTULUS ROZETI; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENUS; GEOGRAPHY; INSECTIVORE; MACROSCELIDEA; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORDO; PETRODROMUS TETRADACTYLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VICARIANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; HUMIDITY; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTULUS; ELEPHANTULUS ROZETI; MACROSCELIDEA; MAMMALIA; PETRODROMUS TETRADACTYLUS; SORICIDAE; TETRADACTYLUS;

EID: 0037816212     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0832467100     Document Type: Article

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