Molecular phylogenetics reveals Messinian, Pliocene, and Pleistocene colonizations of islands by North African shrews

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 877-882

  Dubey, Sylvain ^a,b   Koyasu, Kazuhiro ^a,c   Parapanov, Roumen ^a   Ribi, Mohammed ^c,d   Hutterer, Rainer ^e   Vogel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Haut Commissariat aux Eaux et Forets et a la Lutte Contre la Desertification   (Morocco)

^e ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SHREW; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHREWS; TIME FACTORS;

SORICIDAE;

EID: 42749092522     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.12.014     Document Type: Article

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